Dallas Dunlap
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Badger Therese:
I don't see "2024" on your Amazon page. Did you withdraw it from sale? If so, that's unfortunate. While I don't think Trump is quite that bad, the book was a pretty good dystopian novel, and your description of Liesl's flat affect in her reaction to her imprisonment and torture is just superb. What are you working on now?
Badger Therese
Thanks for the question & kind words, Dallas.
When writing current-event dystopia, the actual news will inevitably catch up with one, rendering the project increasingly moot. Also rendered moot: the cautionary value of what was intended as a cautionary tale.
How bad will things get? Never as bad as everyone expects . . . until they do. As I write this, Trump has ordered a government shutdown a full month before he takes office, and his administration appears poised to outlaw the polio vaccine. He's also making rumbling noises against Canada of the sort which sometimes continue per history into war (as predicted in 2024).
Otherwise, I'm staying busy here, collaborating on the next Winds of Gaia book with Lena White, and the next Production Contract Illustrated book with Kerel van Mierlo (both available for pre-order now and releasing in January) and working on 3 more solo projects, any or all of which may never see the light of day. But here they are, in likely order of publication;
1. What happens when an ambitious, bright girl is born to a slave?
2. What happens from a cultural, commercial, medical & law enforcement perspective when the human race can at last perceive individual neurons and synapses?
3. Breeding Camp 1
When writing current-event dystopia, the actual news will inevitably catch up with one, rendering the project increasingly moot. Also rendered moot: the cautionary value of what was intended as a cautionary tale.
How bad will things get? Never as bad as everyone expects . . . until they do. As I write this, Trump has ordered a government shutdown a full month before he takes office, and his administration appears poised to outlaw the polio vaccine. He's also making rumbling noises against Canada of the sort which sometimes continue per history into war (as predicted in 2024).
Otherwise, I'm staying busy here, collaborating on the next Winds of Gaia book with Lena White, and the next Production Contract Illustrated book with Kerel van Mierlo (both available for pre-order now and releasing in January) and working on 3 more solo projects, any or all of which may never see the light of day. But here they are, in likely order of publication;
1. What happens when an ambitious, bright girl is born to a slave?
2. What happens from a cultural, commercial, medical & law enforcement perspective when the human race can at last perceive individual neurons and synapses?
3. Breeding Camp 1
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