New Book

[rich]

re: jbor's post about the new novel--the reference to book opening up
in a retirement home may have emerged from the fake B Schrapnel
article:

"We drank and talked for another half hour, though, ate an order of
chips and salsa, and he added that his next novel will be, well,
"neo-gothic." Set in an American subtropical region that is over run
by retirees from the Midwest and New York, the book's themes are
greed, solipsism, and anti-environmentalism, with a dash of
Armageddon. Destruction, death and gore abound. The heroes are aliens
from a distant galaxy. These extraterrestrials are more plant than
animal, and therefore appalled at how life has evolved on earth. You
may guess the rest. I'm sure the novel will take four or five years to
draft and polish; and I'm hopeful it will acquire some alteration of
motifs and themes."

rich