![]() ![]() It’s a genre that allows writers to design compulsively readable thrillers around thoughtful ideas. It feels familiar, and yet introduces a difference that changes everything. What I love about alt-fic is that it is broad and recognizable. ![]() I posit a world where death is just the beginning, and where afterwards people find themselves in a world with a new set of rules. I came up with the name about the time I started my Brilliance trilogy, an alternative present in which a fraction of the population are born savants, forcing the question: If 1% are objectively better, what happens to the other 99% of us? My new novel Afterlife is also alt-fic. It’s rather like speculative fiction or magical realism, but tends to be more grounded. Alt-fic is a cousin to sci-fi, but appeals to a broader audience. I call it “alt-fic.” In essence, alt-fic is about a world that is very similar to ours, only with one or two significant changes in which the whole story is rooted. On the run from assassins, Trinity flees with Daniels help through the back roads of the. ![]()
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