I heard a good interview on NPR's All Things Considered this evening with
XXXXXX (I forgot his first name) Mosely, who writes the very successful Easy
Rawlings series of mystery novels. He has written a new science fiction book,
Blue Light.
The very short version of this book is that a blue light shines down on an
eclectic group of people, animals, and at least one plant and transforms them
into "something superior, not necessarily better." This allows him to talk
about SF themes, such as the nature of reality, that are impossible to do in
straight ahead crime fiction.
The book sounded interesting, and I have enjoyed his other writing, so I was
wondering if anyone had read it and had any comments?
BTW. He said that he wrote the book without having it presold. When it was
complete, he sent it to Norton, the publisher who had done all his previous
books. They turned it down.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because it is science fiction."
"So?"
"We don't do science fiction." As in, "We don't do no stinkin' science
fiction."
He evidently had a great deal of trouble getting it published. Curious to see
this in the case of an author whose commercial success has been demonstrated
more than once.
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