Achieving that requires (among other things) that the world is credible and is thoroughly accountable to its own logic (and reasonable scientific projections, in the case of hard SF).
In short, I’m doing my job properly if my fiction functions as a door into another world that feels so real, so immediate, that the reader “falls into” it. The “rigorous futurism” that has, from the first, informed its creation is rooted in my desire to provide readers with a powerful sense of immersion in narrative world and an overwhelming “you-are-there” verisimilitude.
Firstly, the Tales of the Terran Republic is set in what I would call the “mid-future.” It starts in roughly 2115 AD, where a lot of things have changed, but a lot of things look and sound pretty familiar (there are specific reasons for both). Gannon (CEG): It’s difficult to answer such an expansive question concisely, but I’ll give it a try. He paused in his busy writing and convention schedule to chat with the Daily Dragon before attending Dragon Con 2014.ĭaily Dragon (DD): Can you describe the twenty-second century universe of the Tales of the Terran Republic and, referencing your 2013 Free Talk Live Radio interview, the “rigorous futurism” you employed in your world building for short stories and now novels in the series?Ĭharles E. His Tales of the Terran Republic including the Nebula Award nominated finalist and Compton Crook Award-winning novel Fire with Fire and its recently released sequel, best-selling Trial by Fire, exemplify his wide-ranging interests. (“Chuck”) Gannon is an incredibly knowledgeable guy who has published widely about the junctions where fiction, technology (especially military and space), and politics meet.
Professor, Fulbright Fellow, think-tank consultant, scriptwriter, producer, fencer, rifleman, martial artist, husband, father, and best-selling author Dr.
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