Scary Predictions Already Coming True in Iron Mountain

Whoa.

I know I said the Pac Fish Series isn’t political, but I read the newspaper like everyone else. The current tone of American politics is becoming eerily reminiscent of a central theme in my upcoming book, Iron Mountain. Here’s what I’m talking about: According to this Vox article, the gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism. White nationalism, as you know, is a central tenant of insurgent groups like the KKK. It plays a strong role in the motivations of the antagonists you’ll meet in Iron Mountain when it’s released later this year.

I never planned for the future to happen this way when I originally wrote the plot outline of Iron Mountain. I looked at the current state of militia groups in America, realized that many of them had roots in racist ideology and let that inform the types of characters I created. Little did I know that this would become a national topic of conversation.

The prediction, though, is rapidly becoming true: “Trump’s politics of aggrieved white nationalism — labeling black people criminals, Latinos rapists, and Muslims terrorists — succeeded because the party’s voting base was made up of the people who once opposed civil rights,” according to Vox. Imagine an armed group of people who feel that way and you have a pretty good idea of who Jim is up against in Iron Mountain.

This development in current events is sobering for me. Sometimes, truth and fiction slam into each other. Just as I describe in my books, the world is becoming a scary place. Scarier by the day. As Jim is quickly learning, sometimes the only thing you can do is try to be a good person who makes the best possible choice with the information he has. It’s not about politics, it’s not about creed, it’s not about ideologies.

Come along for the ride. It’s about to get real.