Of course, I could have told the stories in Kraken Calling one after the other, chronologically, instead of interleaving them. I wanted to tell two interconnected stories a generation apart – one similar to our own time, and one more authoritarian and wracked by disaster – to really tease apart the differences and heighten the contradictions between the two. What compelled you to write this book with this sort of timeline? How does this asynchronous chronology serve the story? By telling a story in two different time periods we can sharpen the contrast between them. Q: Your debut novel, Kraken Calling, spans two interconnected time periods – one 2028, one 2051 – to tell the story of activist groups attempting to organize and fight back against an increasingly oppressive regime. So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.Īnd the outcome here is determined by the actions of those who resist more than it is by the actions of the nominally powerful. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence, willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty, in order to control its citizens when the government can no longer provide them with a decent quality of life. In 2028, environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution.
#HAND OF FATE KRAKEN FULL#
Political activist and anarchist author Aric McBay ( Full Spectrum Resistance) toggles between the years 20 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse. A sweeping near future dystopian fantasy in the Butlerian vein of Parable duology.
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