"I started thinking about other kinds of unreliable omniscience, ranging from the trivial (the GPS in..."

“I started thinking about other kinds of unreliable omniscience, ranging from the trivial (the GPS in my car) to the tragic (the nightly news). One of the reasons that it took me so long to write the novel [TUMBLEDOWN] is that I needed to invent the point of view of unreliable omniscience and figure out how to use it in the novel. I don’t doubt that someone else invented it long ago, but I couldn’t find useful models, and I had to just make it up.”

- Robert Boswell, in my interview with him