I wanted to do something completely different after four romance novels, and because I’ve been a sci-fi fan all my life I wanted to write sci-fi. But I had decided I was definitely NOT going to write zombies because so many others had. Then the day after making that decision, while ...
So there’s this very perplexing dissonance: on the surface, things are good, but deep down, we know there are problems.And all this dissonance is uncomfortable. It feels contradictory, so it sends us into denial. Either we deny that things are good, or we deny that there are underlying ...
I’ve always been drawn to “dark” novels and films–horror, sci-fi, and extreme realism. As readers, we gain a lot from these bleak worlds. Samara Morgan, the vengeful ghost/demon in the horror story THE RING helps us understand the brutal possibilities of the mother/daughter relationship...
“Soon after,” announce the opening titles, “we, the human race, devolved into illiterate cockroaches.”But among those cockroaches, a few still remembered books, and not only did they remember them, they “knew that their powers could lib...
It dealt with much grimmer topics than graphic novels at that time used to deal with, such as terrorism, totalitarian governments and anarchy. Soon "V For Vendetta" had established a large fan base, which might have been one of the reasons why, in 2006, a movie adaptation was made. ...