![]() Gilsdorf: How do you make an end-of-days armageddon scenario feel fresh? Just taking the movies Deep Impact and Armageddon, it's a genre that's been pretty well traveled. At some point it occurred to me to give my hero the challenge of solving his case in the midst of some earth-shaking calamity, and from there it was a short trip to the end of the world. ![]() The great books of that genre have some levels to them, some resonances beyond the X to Y to Z of clue tracking. I love the classic detective-story model, and have long been interested in the challenge of building a good one. Winters: Oh, well, you know, why does anyone do anything? (Hey, what do you know? That's the theme of the book!) Then you have a very quiet alter-ego as a children's author you wrote the middle grade reader The Secret Life of Ms. ![]() In Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, you take Jane Austen's novel and throw in some giant lobsters, octopi, and sea serpents. ![]() Android Karenina mashes up steampunk with Russian literature. Gilsdorf: Your books have taken on a variety of tones and genres. ![]()
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