BLOG: The Year of Citizen Zero

 The time has come to set a date

 Mark Cantrell explains why he's decided to take his novel out of a perennial near future and root it in hard time...

 

WHEN I first wrote Citizen Zero it felt appropriate to keep the novel's place in time vague, but now it feels right that the events depicted in the story take place in 2070.

 

Indulge me while I explain.

 

Back in 1994, when I first began to write the novel, I was only 25 and (obviously) immortal so I wanted to keep the ti...