In late July, the largest fire in the US, the Oregon Bootleg Fire, which then covered 616 square miles, sent smoke across the country, blanketing the sky in Pennsylvania, where I live. You could smell it, see it in the air and clouding the mountains. When I woke up the next morning, the sun looked otherworldly. It made me feel I was on another planet, gazing a a foreign sun. So far, this is my inspiration for “Lost Worlds.”