Welcome featured author Eileen Schuh as she talks about the near future and why she imagined it to be as it is in DISPASSIONATE LIES
The future is hazy, sometimes scary and
apocalyptic, and always intriguing. Science Fiction fans and authors love to
feed that fear of the unknown, that horrifying ‘what-if?’. They perch as if at
the top of the roller coaster, terrified to the core but anticipating the
thrill. Science Fiction also probes the positives—time
travel, space travel, invisibility, other beings, high tech. It exaggerates
what we are familiar with—evil with unfathomable power often battles the
underdog doers of good and our technology is super-sized. DISPASSIONATE LIES takes us a few steps
into a future that, although familiar, is different than the world we know
today. It takes the scientific research of 2014 over the brink of hypothesis
and theory into actuality and we tumble along with it in the year 2035. Perhaps metamaterials are the norm,
nanotech is providing magical fabrics and computing has leapt to astounding new
levels. Perhaps people are different, evolving. Perhaps international borders
are less de…