![]() Very rarely are cities created all in one piece, and whenever they are, it's usually unsuccessful. "I think what people forget about world building is that it's done in layers, much like our own world, it's created in bits at a time. The place she could grow the most as a character. So it was a task of putting her in her best light and finding the place where she could do the most damage. I had this character right from the get go. Company Town was defended on Canada Reads 2017 by Measha Brueggergosman.īelow, Madeline Ashby describes the genesis of her novel. ![]() At the centre of the chaos - and often causing it - is Hwa, a reserved but tough-as-nails bodyguard recruited by the rig's powerful owners to protect the company's heir apparent. ![]() In her sci-fi novel Company Town, Madeline Ashby imagines a city built on an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland, where the wealth gap is so extreme it often spills over into violence. ![]()
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