Been There
One of my novels coming out this year is one I've written and rewritten over the past 6+ years. It's gone through a number of revisions, as I tried to fine-tune it to the cultural moment we're facing.
Bizarrely, the sadistic finger-wagging by the GOP at California is represented in the book, as I knew just how malevolently partisan they are. There's a wildfire situation in California in the book, and the GOP proxies in the story behave exactly as they are currently.
Points to me for prophecy, I guess. The truth is, Arendt's "banality of evil" idea informs my thinking. The bad guys are predictably callous in their conduct, which makes imagining the worst of them easy.
The novel in question (I'm always loathe to toss out titles before the book's published) is a science fiction parable of sorts -- one part A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and one part CHILDHOOD'S END.
It was the kind of book that when I first wrote it, I thought "Nobody will believe it." However, since then, we've watched cultural catastrophe hit the country, and what was beyond comprehension will apparently be all too real.
Will anybody read it? Probably not, given my luck to date. But there are lessons in it, maybe. It's SF satire, maybe? Who knows how people will take it.
But it does make me sad that the cautionary tale I wrote is playing out in real time. We're cooked.
Bizarrely, the sadistic finger-wagging by the GOP at California is represented in the book, as I knew just how malevolently partisan they are. There's a wildfire situation in California in the book, and the GOP proxies in the story behave exactly as they are currently.
Points to me for prophecy, I guess. The truth is, Arendt's "banality of evil" idea informs my thinking. The bad guys are predictably callous in their conduct, which makes imagining the worst of them easy.
The novel in question (I'm always loathe to toss out titles before the book's published) is a science fiction parable of sorts -- one part A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND and one part CHILDHOOD'S END.
It was the kind of book that when I first wrote it, I thought "Nobody will believe it." However, since then, we've watched cultural catastrophe hit the country, and what was beyond comprehension will apparently be all too real.
Will anybody read it? Probably not, given my luck to date. But there are lessons in it, maybe. It's SF satire, maybe? Who knows how people will take it.
But it does make me sad that the cautionary tale I wrote is playing out in real time. We're cooked.
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