MORE FLOATING ANXIETY, ANYONE?
SUSPENSE is my favored genre besides my newly introduced, SciFu (Science-based Futuring or Science-based Futuring Studies). Suspense is all about excitement based on uncertainty about what may happen next. In my mind, it’s a prerequisite to a good mystery or thriller, especially one that doesn’t involve criminal violence. A mystery or thriller based on criminal violence or these days, grotesque violence, is fairly commonplace and — in my opinion — totally passé. An intellectual, psychological, emotional or romantic mystery or thriller not steeped in violence, on the the other hand — less common and in my opinion significantly harder to write — is often the enduring winner. Call it “light” suspense (or just laugh if you like), but in the Savant/Aignos literary world, I think immediately of Natalie Roers (BENEATH THEM), Lynne McKelvey (A REAL DAUGHTER), Bentley Gates (THE HANGING OF DR. HANSON), Tima Z. Newman (ELAINE OF CORBENIC), David B. Seaburn (CHARLIE NO FACE, CHIMNEY BLUFFS and MORE MORE TIME) and, on the even lighter side, Charlotte Hebert (BIG HEAVEN) and R. Page Kaufman (TROPIC OF CALIFORNIA). In the shadow half-literature, half-video anime world, I think of Isuna Hasekura (“Spice and Wolf”), Clamp (“Chobits”) or Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away”). And, of course, within the cinematic world I think first of that master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, where, if violence is central to the plot, it is more suspenseful by being unclear. Or multi-award-winning Savant author Richard Rose (“Static”) currently in cinematic production by K. Simmons Productions.
What all these works have in common is not just suspense, aka anxiety — something I suspect everyone living in 2020 has experienced in their life almost daily — but non-violent suspense, aka a sort of “floating anxiety” or anxiety without an obvious cause, sometimes bordering on ennui. My latest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS, is, in addition to being to the best of my knowledge the world’s first declared SciFu novel, a non-violent suspense novel as well. That is, it doesn’t directly include violence to create suspense, instead, relying almost wholly on emotional suspense, addressing the question, “What are the various interacting characters going to feel next?” Struggling with 2020 anxiety withdrawl? May I suggest THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
What all these works have in common is not just suspense, aka anxiety — something I suspect everyone living in 2020 has experienced in their life almost daily — but non-violent suspense, aka a sort of “floating anxiety” or anxiety without an obvious cause, sometimes bordering on ennui. My latest novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS, is, in addition to being to the best of my knowledge the world’s first declared SciFu novel, a non-violent suspense novel as well. That is, it doesn’t directly include violence to create suspense, instead, relying almost wholly on emotional suspense, addressing the question, “What are the various interacting characters going to feel next?” Struggling with 2020 anxiety withdrawl? May I suggest THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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