Showing posts with label genre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genre. Show all posts

Sunday, October 1, 2006

Truth in Advertising

My sci-fi thrillers don't have the kind of "Mature" content that would disallow a teenage reader from having access to them. While there is some strong language once in while, it's not enough to make it "Mature". Any "Mature" content in my books would be in the form of the intellectual exercises required as readers ponder the speculative science or the historical and cultural references included in my fiction.

But the Science Fiction for Thinkers collection is not just for "Young Adult" readers, either, as some people erroneously label them. They're actually for "Older Adults" who know a little something about 20th Century history, American culture and the human condition, but who also thirst for 21st Century excitement, especially in the form of speculative science and the classic conflict between "Good" and "Evil".

That typically means Generation Xers and Baby Boomers. And older, but not necessarily. There are some bright and inquisitive young minds out there and my sci-fi-thrillers are most certainly for them, as well.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Why I Chose Sci-Fi

On my ninth birthday, at age fourteen, and again at seventeen, my life was altered forever by mysterious encounters with otherworldly phenomena.

The most vivid memory I have is about waving a UFO down from the sky when I was seventeen and then waving good-bye to it several seconds later. Those few seconds turned out to be an hour and a half of lost time.

My novels are not based on these experiences but the new genre I chose — blending sci-fi with mainstream and throwing in a lot of contemporary issues — was definitely influenced by these events.

In the immortal words of the late Robert D. Barry who hosted a local late-night Pennsylvania TV show called E.T. Monitor in the 1980s: Something to think about.