Bridge author, Lauren Beukes: There are a lot of multiverses out there

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Lauren Beukes’s Bridge, a thrilling sci-fi novel exploring neuroparasitology and the multiverse. This week our culture editor Alison Flood got to catch up with the Arthur C Clarke award-winning novelist to find out what inspired the creation of the ‘dreamworm’, how music theory influenced her novel and why she has a slice of a rat’s brain in her cupboard.

Bridge is the latest pick for New Scientist’s new book club, for which you can sign up here