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Thanks to First Rule Publicity had the chance to ask Anderson the author of Kingdom some questions. See the interview below.
Thanks to First Rule Publicity had the chance to ask Anderson the author of Kingdom some questions. See the interview below.
What readers are saying about KINGDOM
“A taut, brilliantly conceived thriller with impeccable pacing bursting with ideas…For fans of noir-laden science fiction in the vein of Philip K. Dick that is in equal measures suspenseful, gripping, darkly funny and philosophically challenging.” (starred review) -Kirkus Reviews
“Toss William Gibson, Andrew Vachss and David Fincher into the Petri dish, irradiate them, then infuse the result with Transylvanian meth, and you’ll have some sense of what O’Donnell has concocted.” - Jack O’Connell, author of Box Nine and The Resurrectionist.
“There simply aren’t enough stars to communicate the impressiveness of O’Donnell’s work here. He has taken religion, science, politics, theory and philosophy and blended them all together to create what is easily one of the most important books to come out this year.” - Pavarti K. Tyler, Fighting Monkey Press & author of Shadow on the Wall
Kingdom by Anderson O' Donnell
In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project—codename “Exodus”—has discovered the gene responsible for the human soul.
In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project—codename “Exodus”—has discovered the gene responsible for the human soul.
Somewhere in the neon sprawl outside the nation’s collapsing economic core, a group of renegade monks are on the verge of uncovering a secret that has eluded mankind for centuries.
In a glittering tower high above the urban decay, an ascendant U.S. Senator is found dead—an apparent, yet inexplicable, suicide.
And in the streets below, a young man races through an ultra modern metropolis on the verge of a violent revolution….closing in on the terrible truth behind Exodus—and one man’s dark vision for the future of mankind.
Welcome to Tiber City
Author Interview
Questions and Answers
KINGDOM takes a big
step beyond the traditional pillars of genre pulp—the drugs, violence, and sex;
the loser anti-hero taking one last stab at glory with the tattooed dancers.
Not to say KINGDOM doesn’t have its fair share of all of that; it does. But it
goes one step further—and this is a big step. KINGDOM some hard questions about
what’s wrong with the modern world, and then I look for answers in places that,
I believe, lots of other genre fiction ignores: William James, St. Thomas
Aquinas, the Book of Exodus, T.S. Elliot, and Shakespeare, just to name a few.
So you get all the great stuff that comes with genre fiction, with some
philosophy and religion on the side. It’s an interesting combination that I
think most readers will dig.
What is something unique about yourself you'd like to mention?
I once got stuck in an elevator with
Cory Feldman.
Besides writing what do you enjoy doing?
I’ve been a father for almost three
years now and, I love it. So that takes up the majority of my free time. I try
to get out downtown every so often, just to try and see what’s going on; to try
and take the city’s pulse, so to speak. And that’s something that’s very
important to my writing. But really, these days, when I’ve got downtime, I’m
rolling in the mud with my boys.
The hard little things and easy things about writing?
The easiest little thing, for me, is cutting
scenes, or even characters. I rarely fall in love with my own prose, and will
cut if my beta-readers suggest I do so.
The hardest little thing about writing,
for me, is remembering to turn off the Internet. I’ll forget, then catch myself
tumbling down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
What has really inspired you to write in general?
My
wife has been a huge inspiration. She is a cancer survivor and her will to
fight and reclaim her life just blows me away on a daily basis. So, on the
mornings when I don’t feel like dragging my ass outta bed to write, I take one
look at her and get moving.
On you as a regular person: Do you visit book blogs? What do you like
visiting them for?
Before
publishing KINGDOM, I hadn’t spent a ton of time on book blogs. Part of that
was because I just didn’t have the time: between my bill-paying job, my family,
and my writing, there wasn’t a whole lot of extra time. But now I’m hooked. I
love hearing about new authors, and new ideas: this is where the new revolution
in digital media is coming from…not the boardrooms of conglomerates.
7. How has the Kingdom Online Book Tour been so far?
The private jets, the groupies, the trashed hotel rooms:
what’s not to love? But seriously, it’s
been incredible. I’ve had a chance to not only talk about KINGDOM, but I’ve
been able to interact with people who love to read, and who are passionate
about indie writing and the indie literary community. Its inspiring, and has,
on some level, re-kindled my basic passion for books. I think, as an author,
its possible to lose a little of that unbridled love of books—we start
evaluating them as professionals, rather than just reading the suckers. This
tour has helped me reconnect with that pure love of books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anderson O’Donnell presents a biopunk, dystopian noir-esque thriller in this amazing read, KINGDOM. Most people are familiar with the term “cyberpunk,” but “biopunk” is harder to nail down. In many ways, biopunk is similar to the cyberpunk genre, and shares many of the same themes and archetypes: the dystopian future; the overreliance on technology; mega-corporations; a constant and overwhelming flow of data; the anti-hero—these elements are integral parts of both genres.
Anderson lives in Connecticut with his wife and sons. Anderson himself deems Kingdom as “a thrill-a-minute, bio-punk myth that manages to wrestle with the most pressing issues of the new millennium. O’Donnell has crafted a kickass novel of tomorrow night, when the big party gets raided by the monsters we’ve been building for the last half-century.”
His debut novel, Kingdom, a dystopian, biopunk thriller, is now available in paperback and ebook format. Kingdom is the first part of the Tiber City Trilogy. Look for part two, Exile,in the summer of 2013.
