DO YOU PREFER EBOOKS, PAPERBACKS OR HARDCOVER?
Normally I like ebooks, just because I’ve moved so many times and had to lose so many of my books. With ebooks I’ll never have to get rid of another one. However, I’m a bath reader. I wish they’d invent waterproof books, but until then, cheap paperbacks go in the bath with me
WHAT IS THE FIRST SCIENCE FICTION BOOK YOU REMEMBER READING?
The first science fiction book I read was actually a comic called “When the Wind Blows” by Raymond Briggs. My mother bought it thinking it was a book for kids. She was horrified when I started asking about nuclear war, but since then both science fiction and Post-apocalyptic books have been a passion of mine.
ANY MOVIE, ANY BOOK...WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE ANTAGONIST?
Uriah Heep. Without question. Nobody else even comes close.
WHEN YOU GO TO SEE A MOVIE, DO YOU TRY TO READ THE BOOK FIRST?
Always. It’s not that the book is always better (believe me, I’ve seen some great movies with stinker books), it’s that I don’t want to picture the actors when I read.
IS THERE AN AUTHOR THAT YOU WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET?
David Sedaris
IF WE HAD A CUSTOM THAT ALLOWED US TO EAT OUR CHILDREN, WHAT KIND OF
SAUCE WOULD YOU USE?
SAUCE WOULD YOU USE?
It’d have to be cheesy, hollandaisy type sauce. You got to cover up the dirt and smell. My kids are greasy and stinky at the best of times, like 5 seconds after their baths. :)
ARE OUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES STEALING OUR SOUL? AND IF SO, DO YOU MAKE
OFFERINGS TO YOUR TOASTER?
ARE OUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES STEALING OUR SOUL? AND IF SO, DO YOU MAKE
OFFERINGS TO YOUR TOASTER?
When you really think about it, aren’t electronic devices more likely to have a soul than a person? I mean, at least reincarnation-wise. You can take the memory core out of any computer and put it into another computer and it is essentially the same. So they don’t need to steal ours. And I only make offerings to my computer if it’s been a long time since I backed up the novel.
DO YOU THINK THE UNITED STATES IS SECRETLY A MIRROR UNIVERSE OF CANADA, LIKE THE STAR TREK EPISODE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES IS THE EVIL DIMENSION?
DO YOU THINK THE UNITED STATES IS SECRETLY A MIRROR UNIVERSE OF CANADA, LIKE THE STAR TREK EPISODE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES IS THE EVIL DIMENSION?
I don’t really think it’s that secret any more. I mean, we’re pretty openly evil :)
HAVE YOU SEEN MY SHOES?
Yes. They are hanging from the phone wire in Spectre.
WHY DIDN'T HURLEY LOSE ANY WEIGHT WHILE ON THE ISLAND?
WHY DIDN'T HURLEY LOSE ANY WEIGHT WHILE ON THE ISLAND?
Coconuts are surprisingly high in calories.
BONUS QUESTION: WHY DO VILLAINS PREFER LONG HAIR CATS INSTEAD OF
HAIRLESS CATS? HAIRLESS CATS ARE MUCH MORE EVIL LOOKING. SEEMS LIKE A
MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
HAIRLESS CATS? HAIRLESS CATS ARE MUCH MORE EVIL LOOKING. SEEMS LIKE A
MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
But hairless cats can’t torture people with allergies.
WHERE DID YOUR TOMORROW SPRING FROM? IN OTHER WORDS, HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE CRAZY WORLD?
I read far too many zombie books. Finally I started asking myself why it was always a virus or chemical that caused zombieism. Why wasn’t it bacteria? I figured it must be because you can cure a bacteria. And then I thought, what would a society with cured zombies look like? One of the classic “cardinal rules” that is consistent across all societies is that they don’t tolerate murder (of course, the definition of murder varies, but in all societies, what the society deems murder is ALWAYS punished). What if everyone you met, everyone you would ever meet, did business with, let babysit your kids, fell in love with, what if they were ALL murderers? And I realized it actually exists in the world (not to this great of an extent, but similar situations). People live together after genocide, after war, after atrocity. They eventually pick up and go on with their lives. Sometimes old enemies are neighbors. Or employers. Or community leaders. But life goes on anyway. And THAT to me, was worth thinking about. And worth writing about, albeit in an alternate, not-as-severe way (after all, the people in After the Cure were driven either by madness or necessity to kill. Not something that every person committing cruel acts in the real world can say).
JUST HOW FAR IN THE FUTURE IS YOUR TOMORROW?
It’s meant to be very close to present day.
DID YOU DO ANY SPECIFIC OR UNUSUAL RESEARCH FOR THIS BOOK?
All the material I could find on the Nuremburg trials, the Eichmann trial, reintegration of Germany after WWII in addition to the more prosaic (in my mind) biology and medical procedures required to create the bacteria. In the follow up, I chose Rwanda as my research focus instead, since there is far more information about how old enemies coexist now.
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