Christoph Weber is a former firefighter, now a writer and tropical fruit orchardist in Hilo, Hawaii, a town so rainy he couldn’t start a wildfire if he wanted. Probably. He hasn’t tried.

Christoph’s short fiction has appeared in Nature, VICE’s Terraform, and won the Writers of the Future Award. For more of his work, including an in-progress trilogy that resurrects Neanderthals and other de-extincted hominins, follow him at christophweber.com