Greg van Eekhout
Greg van Eekhout
Greg van Eekhout is a science fiction and fantasy writer. His "In the Late December"was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and his middle-grade fantasy novel The Boy at the End of the World was nominated for the 2012 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy...
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I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
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'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
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As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.
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In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
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Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.
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As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
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To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive