It’d take him like three days to get used to the internet and smartphones and then he’d go to McDonalds and order the exact same thing he used to get, only with a much bigger drink. I mean, a time traveler from 1985 arriving today wouldn’t be running around in terror. Kanye West will still be doing tours, Burger King will still be selling burgers. And the reality is that the world 25 or 30 years from now isn’t going to be Dune, lots of the people who are famous now will still be famous then. I didn’t want that - I wanted a setting with technology that’s transformative, but in a world that’s clearly still ours. It’s not just the buildings are shaped different - the people are different, all humour has vanished from the species, everyone just broods in the rain all day. The whole premise there is that it’s a future so alien, terrifying and off-putting that you can’t look away from it.
For instance, Blade Runner is a masterpiece, but it could just as easily take place in another galaxy – there’s nothing about that world that feels familiar to ours. I didn’t want the kind of sci-fi that portrays Future America as an unrecognisable alien planet. What was the appeal of near future sci-fi? A lot of the tech in the book doesn’t feel too far removed from the present, and of course there’s still “chilli.” This is why every single sentence gets rewritten 36 times before I send it off. If it’s not terrifying because it’s new territory, then it’s terrifying because I’m afraid of ruining a beloved series. It’s all nerve-wracking! I’m writing the next John and Dave book and that’s nerve-wracking, too. Was stepping away from that universe nerve-wracking in any way, or was it just exciting? Well you don’t want to just write the same thing all the time, Ian Fleming for instance had all sorts of other great novels aside from the James Bond series (probably, I didn’t have a chance to check). Was it a conscious decision to move away from John and Dave? The book’s still got a lot of that brilliant weirdness in there but it’s definitely something different. How would you pitch Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits?Ī young woman from the trailer park and her very smelly cat must wage a war against a horde of cybernetically-enhanced supervillains. We took the chance to talk to him about his new novel, how he feels about the John Dies At The End movie, and why Blofeld is the best movie cat.
Now, the author has stepped (briefly) away from the JDATE universe to deliver a sci-fi tale: Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits. His novel John Dies At The End, and its follow-up This Book Is Full Of Spiders, delivered a truly brilliant combination of disgusting body horror, genuinely creepy chills and massive belly laughs.
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