So it’s a cool sandbox in which to bury all your other literary toys. Also, it’s an environment in which high conflict is the default and the mundane has, to some degree, been eliminated and replaced by the unpredictable.
Same thing that makes me write about parasites, or sharks, or human relationships. I’d describe the attraction as a fearful fascination. What attracts you to the apocalyptic? And as a writer, how do you make it feel fresh as a setting? Extinction Journals was set after the end of the world. Skullcrack City opens with a prelude to the end of the world. I talked with Johnson about the creation of his new book, his fondness for apocalyptic literature, and more. Readers seeking a particularly singular take on the end of the world would do well to seek out Jeremy Robert Johnson‘s new novel Skullcrack City. Featuring a plotline involving body modification, brain-devouring genetic experiments, sinister demonic gods, and an eye-exploding drug, Skullcrack City is a particularly manic entry in its field, irreverently finding new ways to riff on familiar concepts.
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