Jawbone.tv take a closer look at the upcoming series FlashForward, including an interview with the author behind the original novel of the same name, Robert J. Sawyer.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the interview:
Jawbone.tv: You have an interesting mission statement: “To combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.” What exactly does that mean to you?
“The neat things about science fiction is it’s the only branch of literature that actually has to be fractal, that has to be interesting at really small scales, and really large scales. In mainstream fiction you might write a little poignant story about a mother and her daughter, but there’s no sense that there’s also a war going on in the middle east, that global warming is consuming the world, that there’s strife and unrest on the planet, and beyond the planet all the things that are happening. Science fiction takes a very multileveled approach.”
“Yes, there’s got to be a really compelling human-interest story at the heart of a good science fiction novel. But it also acknowledges that we live in a much wider universe, and it tries to have a correspondence or a dialogue between the ‘intimately human’ – the personal story – and the ‘grandly cosmic’, which doesn’t actually necessarily mean cosmic in terms of astronomical, but big, big notions, big ideas, have to interplay with the very personal.”
You can read the article and entire interview here.
