Writing intense quiet…

I write sci-fi thrillers. Readers and writers have preconceived notions about what that means. The sci-fi part is well understood—or is it? The whole Star Wars juggernaut was fantasy, not sci-fi, for example—or, at best, a fantasized rendering of Asimov’s Foundation series souped up with language from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter series (Jedi warriors, the white beast on the ice planet, etc). Still, I’ll give you that sci-fi writing is well defined, even if Hollywood doesn’t know the def...