Right? For me the possible end of the world as I knew it was something I lived with every day. But, hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. To this day, I can’t figure out what hiding under a desk will do. I still have those old civil defense pamphlets they handed out in grade school. I grew up in the ‘50s and ‘60s when the threat of nuclear war was very, very real.
We are fascinated by what it takes to survive. The current spate of zombie apocalypse tales is proof this subgenre isn’t going away anytime soon. Over the next few weeks I’m going to present more detailed thoughts on and examples of this sub-subgenre of speculative fiction.Īpocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories are very popular and their popularity shows no sign of abating. You can find those posts here, here, and here. The Rocheport Saga is a cozy catastrophe and I’ve written previously on the cozy catastrophe. Unfortunately with The Rocheport Saga my technical knowledge of surviving such a holocaust and what is possible has increased a hundred fold since I first wrote the manuscript. I follow the practice of writers such as Lester Dent, Isaac Asimov, Robert E Howard, Robert Heinlein, and Dean Wesley Smith - get the story written and move on to the next one. The original manuscript for The Rocheport Saga is a monster over 2200 pages long. It is the story of one man’s attempt to create paradise out of the disaster that has almost totally wiped out the human race. The Rocheport Saga currently has 5 volumes in the series and I’m working on number 6. As the old adage goes: variety is the spice of life.Īnd so now I switch gears and turn my attention to one of my other loves: the post-apocalyptic tale. However if all I wrote were mysteries, I think I’d become bored with writing. I love Tina and Harry and find their stories the easiest to write. Three novels, a collection of 3 novellas, and 3 short stories. That makes for 7 Justinia Wright mysteries I’ve published. The Conspiracy Game (Justinia Wright, PI #4) is available on a pre-publication sale this week only for 99¢. This was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, occuring in 1957, and the region around the Mayak plant is still the most polluted on the planet today. September 2000, Muslyumovo, 40 km from the Mayak nuclear complex, Ural mountains, Russia: Former main street in Muslyumovo, near the Techa River, which has been severely contaminated with radioactive waste.
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