A Book That Could Help You Survive Almost Any Disaster
Daisy-chain earthquakes, mega-tsunamis, nuclear blasts, fast-style zombies: These are the troubling pictures moving on the walls of Sam Sheridan’s brain at night. He’s obsessed with the end of the world as we know it-or TEOTWAWKI, as certain advance-planning citizens, generally referred to as survivalists, know it. Sheridan ventured deep into the TEOTWAWKI demimonde in the…
The Two Stages of a Hollywood Soul-Crushing
In this essay, Robopocalypse author Daniel Wilson talks about what it’s really like to work as a writer in Hollywood, with the big highs and even bigger lows. I remember it clearly. I’m twenty-six years old, pacing around on the phone outside an Ethiopian restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m trying to figure out who the…
An incredible book of poetry about DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes
Is this your first visit to the 30th century? Those of you from a millennium past may experience disorientation. Know that we have addressed our epoch to utopia. Know that we looked to you when we designed the answer to the question of our future, a fiction. —”Welcome Visitors,” Raymond McDaniel (Special Powers and Abilities…
