"Why he set his book in the Spiro Mounds of Northeastern Oklahoma: "The mound builder civilization just has always been fascinating to me because it's so ancient. It's a precursor civilization before a lot of the tribes that we know today, including the Cherokee, and of course the Cherokee aren't from that area. It's just this ancient, mysterious place ... basically our equivalent of the Egyptian pyramids in North America.""
"Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and Portland author of several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse, as well as many nonfiction books, and countless short stories and graphic novels. He is a renowned roboticist and engineer with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon who has worked in recent years as a threat forecaster for NASA and the U.S. Air Force (Blue Horizons)."
Nearly half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth, according to a recent YouGov poll. Daniel H. Wilson re-envisions a first-contact alien invasion from an Indigenous perspective in Hole In The Sky. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and a Portland-based roboticist with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon who has worked as a threat forecaster for NASA and the U.S. Air Force. Scientific American selected Hole In The Sky as a best pick for 2025. Netflix acquired adaptation rights, with Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films producing and Wilson adapting the screenplay, and Sterlin Harjo set to direct. Wilson chose the Spiro Mounds setting for its ancient, mysterious significance.
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