POINT-OF-VIEW
WHEN I began writing THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I wanted to start off this mixed relationship, love-romance, erotic, mixed LGBTQ, SciFu genre work about a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live, with something unique. I chose a Point-of-View (POV) shift. Instead of writing about the birth of the main character from a third party or the mother’s POV, I wrote the first few chapters about his birth entirely from the character’s POV. For me, it proved one of my most interesting writes yet. What does a baby experience in utero, during and immediately after birth? What is the happening from his or her unique POV, especially given his or her limited experience in “our” world?
To this unique POV, I added two additional tidbits to make it even more interesting: First, the character is quite conscious well before birth, and capable of experiencing his in utero world and learning from that experience. While that may sound outrageous to some, there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that some are able to access newborn, birthing and even pre-natal memories of sensations, though the interpretation of those sensations, given the limited experience of the fetus, may be quite unusual.
Second, my principal character is a smell savant. That is, he has a heightened sense and memory of smell. I chose this sense because of all the senses, smell is supposedly the most primitive, and thereby, by my reckoning, the most powerful. Medical publications relate that smell is fewer neurons from the brain than any other sense, so I take that as support for my statement, and, though I’ve never met nor am I particularly a smell savant, I thoroughly enjoyed exploring this possibility.
I don’t find mono-genre books of much interest (though they are often simpler to follow); instead, I prefer authoring multi-genre works, which those who’ve read TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, and/or QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by Raymond Gaynor and A. G. Hayes will attest. One thing that makes my works more plausible, I think, is that I present a world that is complex (sometimes puzzlingly so), wet, dirty, frothing with emotion, and replete with action sometimes driven consciously but more often driven almost entirely by the subconscious.
I invite you to step out of your comfort zone and tiptoe to the edge of madness, a madness that may actually be more real than fiction and provide a glimpse into a neither dystopian nor utopian science-based future.
The Edge of Madness
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
Quantum Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
To this unique POV, I added two additional tidbits to make it even more interesting: First, the character is quite conscious well before birth, and capable of experiencing his in utero world and learning from that experience. While that may sound outrageous to some, there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that some are able to access newborn, birthing and even pre-natal memories of sensations, though the interpretation of those sensations, given the limited experience of the fetus, may be quite unusual.
Second, my principal character is a smell savant. That is, he has a heightened sense and memory of smell. I chose this sense because of all the senses, smell is supposedly the most primitive, and thereby, by my reckoning, the most powerful. Medical publications relate that smell is fewer neurons from the brain than any other sense, so I take that as support for my statement, and, though I’ve never met nor am I particularly a smell savant, I thoroughly enjoyed exploring this possibility.
I don’t find mono-genre books of much interest (though they are often simpler to follow); instead, I prefer authoring multi-genre works, which those who’ve read TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, and/or QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by Raymond Gaynor and A. G. Hayes will attest. One thing that makes my works more plausible, I think, is that I present a world that is complex (sometimes puzzlingly so), wet, dirty, frothing with emotion, and replete with action sometimes driven consciously but more often driven almost entirely by the subconscious.
I invite you to step out of your comfort zone and tiptoe to the edge of madness, a madness that may actually be more real than fiction and provide a glimpse into a neither dystopian nor utopian science-based future.
The Edge of Madness
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
Quantum Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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