Interference: A Novel (Semiosis, 2)

Sue Burke's sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.

Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission.

But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known.

Stevland is not the apex species on Pax.

Other Books by Sue Burke
Semiosis duology
Semiosis
Interference


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Published Oct 22, 2019

320 pages

Average rating: 5.4

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Nov 03, 2025
6/10 stars
Read my full review of the first book, Semiosis, at The Nerd Cantina:
https://thenerdcantina.com/semiosis-by-sue-burke-book-review

Sue Burke reunites readers with the sentient bamboo Stevland, the Glassmakers, and the humans of Pax. Taking place a couple hundred years after the events of the first novel, subsequent generations of these species have found a way to successfully work with each other in a civilized society. However, when a new group of people from Earth arrive on Pax, cultural and political complications ensue and the established colony must find a way to welcome the new group of strange “aliens” who may never be able to return to Earth. Additionally, further exploration reveals another sentient plant that does not come in peace.

Read my full review at The Nerd Cantina:
https://thenerdcantina.com/interference-by-sue-burke-book-review

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