I'm pretty excited about the book I'm working on, I hope people like it, I think it's really special.
But make no mistake: if it fails, it's my fault -- either on writing, or editing, or art, or typesetting, or advertising.
I can't blame readers or potential customers for it, at the end of the day I'm not owed anyone's time or money.
Regardless, hopefully at least a few people check it out when it comes out, and hopefully the people who pick it up will think it's as special as I think it is.
But make no mistake: if it fails, it's my fault -- either on writing, or editing, or art, or typesetting, or advertising.
I can't blame readers or potential customers for it, at the end of the day I'm not owed anyone's time or money.
Regardless, hopefully at least a few people check it out when it comes out, and hopefully the people who pick it up will think it's as special as I think it is.
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It's a sci-fi/speculative fiction book about 4 people from today waking up 100 years from now after dying unexpectedly in a plane crash in the arctic. They witness and try to integrate with varying degrees of success into the future that already experienced the consequences we're just talking about today, while dealing with the personal consequences of their resurrection (which are at times really visceral) and also navigating the pathologies of our age transposed into a new age that sees the world through much different eyes. Meanwhile, the story also looks at the potential consequences of certain technologies that are just beginning today but are likely to be fairly mature in 100 years, such as a combination of AI and neural implants.
The book lives in people's immediate perspectives, and has no omniscient narrator throughout. Everything that happens happens through the viewpoint of the characters in the book, and so part of the journey of each character's arc is learning with the reader about this new world that's quite alien to our current postmodern civilization.
One difference from most science fiction is that this isn't just modernism plus or postmodernism plus. It's a society that rebuilt from the ground up after our current era destroyed culture, meaning, and institutions. It's a society that believes in community, and that has made religion a core part of that community.
The book lives in people's immediate perspectives, and has no omniscient narrator throughout. Everything that happens happens through the viewpoint of the characters in the book, and so part of the journey of each character's arc is learning with the reader about this new world that's quite alien to our current postmodern civilization.
One difference from most science fiction is that this isn't just modernism plus or postmodernism plus. It's a society that rebuilt from the ground up after our current era destroyed culture, meaning, and institutions. It's a society that believes in community, and that has made religion a core part of that community.