![]() ![]() This novel is gripping, right up until the first bomb is dropped. The interpersonal tensions and big personalities of the real-world Manhattan Project make for some fascinating reading as they tackle the issues surrounding the creation of the first atomic bombs. ![]() One small decision made differently that makes sense, and everything flows from that departure point. It’s a believable departure from the real history. The first 350 pages are a taught, meticulously researched alternate history that delves into the nitty-gritty technical details of the race to build an atomic bomb. SF author Benford (the Galactic Center series) makes the relevant science accessible to the lay reader in this intriguing alternate history thriller that. While the science is front and centre (not unusual in a Benford novel), the characters do not take a backseat. REWRITE loops in the times stape Also by Gregory Benford The Berlin Project. These are people that Benford knows, and he writes about them with evident affection. His knowledge of the people he’s writing about shines through, and they feel like fully rounded human beings, in a way that some of the protagonists in his previous novels have not. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And then I got the book and I read it, and I was deeply flattered because the book is so interesting. She wrote me the loveliest email saying, “I thought of you for this.” I didn’t know what “this” was yet, but I was really flattered. Do you want to take it over from here?ĭavid: I’d never met Theresa. And then in the summer of 2015, Theresa Park got in touch to say she wanted to buy the film option. I had a premonition that there was going to be a film version, when I was doing the last revisions before the book went out to editors in early 2013. I started working on Bones and All because I thought, “Cannibals in love, that can’t end well.” That’s how it started. That year was a very, very creative year for me. And I thought, gosh, I’m really glad I’m not a flesh eater anymore. I was doing some historical research back in 2011 for a novel that will be set in Scotland, and I found this 18th-century Scottish cookbook, and the “flesh” section of this cookbook was very upsetting. Camille, as a novel, where did this come from?Ĭamille: Well, first I went vegan. Ben Delgado: Let’s start from the beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Getting It Wrong” (2011) – An unpopular man named Edgeworth employed at a movie theater begins receiving calls from an attractive coworker at night asking him for answers to trivia questions about old movies. Reminders of the elderly aunt he was afraid of as a child are never far from his mind as he starts seeing signs she may now be stalking him from beyond the grave.ģ. “Peep” (2007) – A grandfather struggles to watch his unruly twin grandkids when his daughter and son-in-law come to visit. ![]() This is a nice atmospheric piece of creeping dread.Ģ. “Passing Through Peacehaven” (2011) – A man on his way home finds himself in a strange subway station listening to the cryptic, barely audible messages over the intercom. It’s a great collection of supernatural horror by a grandmaster of the genre.ġ. HOLES FOR FACES, Ramsey Campbell’s most recent short story collection, came out from Dark regions Press in 2013. His collection of stories, ALONE WITH THE HORRORS, would be my “trapped on a deserted island” book choice for entertainment (in case being alone on an eerie, silent island at night wouldn’t be unnerving enough). His are the first stories I read in any anthology in which he’s featured, and I’ve consumed more of his novels than any other writer. I’ve made no secret of my love for Ramsey Campbell’s work. ![]() |