I want to tell a serious science fiction story. One that is real to us, that has real people in it, that breathes.

Stories in general, whether they be in the form of movies or books or even graphic novels, and especially today, usually concentrate on one or two elements of story-telling.

A Tarantino movie will be heavy on style and theme, but low on real life characterization and plot in the sense of it being self-driven. Not that his characters are two dimensional, but that they are in some sense iconic rather than real to us. Stephen King, is mid range detail on characters, and heavy on plot and often low in theme. Isaac Asimov, being very typical of science fiction writing, (though it is very good and in fact remains classic science fiction) is almost solely based on theme, is low on characterization and style, yet has heavy plots, but only to drive the theme.

I want to defy this.

I want to write a story that is a heavy dose on virtually all counts. I also aim to dispel the contemporary vogue of style for its own sake. I write with a moral and philosophical purpose.

My particular interest is to tell a science fiction story that is just as interpersonally and domestically oriented as it is political. This is motivated by wanting to reach a psychological depth while illustrating how profoundly personal politics really is--a characteristic much overlooked in most science fiction stories in my opinion.

In terms of writing elements, I wish to have an equal balance of characterization and theme, versus the usual science fiction formula: heavy theme, low on everything else.

Stories tend to be one or the other, but I want my audience to love the protagonist and the people in her life like they would a character driven series such as Six Feet Under, and even more: carry the weighty personal depth-sensitivity that is too often isolated to a female audience in novels like that of Jane Austin or Emily Bronte. I want a story that integrates all of this, and yet, still has the sweeping abstract all-encompassing theme of a science fiction novel and deals with social-political issues in a big way.

I want you to feel like your watching a chic flic, and then hammer you with hardcore sex and politics.

Movies like the Star Wars saga or Blade Runner come close to what I'm talking about in my particular genre. But notice, if you're familiar with both of these films, how more general and abstract Star Wars tends to be in emphasizing the mythological, albeit brilliantly, yet lacks the realism and personal style of Blade Runner.

In terms of science fiction writing, Robert Heinlein is probably the closest in terms of focus, though I have only read Stranger in a Strange Land and am told that other novels are even more concentrated on characters in a psycho-domestic sense.

Except for Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner novel), Heinlein, Asimov novels, and a few scattered others, science fiction is notoriously abstract and far more about technology itself and what happens, events, rather than concentrated at all on the characters and can often be thematically weak in a philosophical way. Jules Verne is a good example of how science fiction got started on abstracts versus domestic themes.

This leaves much of the impact technology has on our psyche, a mystery. I want to bring this mystery to light in dramatic form, especially since so much of what people experience is directly caused by the impact of media on their lives.

Stories about the present tell us about how to live right now, but since so much of what we know is changing so rapidly, it becomes very essential to have a guide to tell you what life is really all about, but then, not just now.

The tragedy is that I see people I've known searching for other answers, that is, other causes than what science and technology have done to us. Psychologists, for instance, seem to leave this factor out entirely.

Meanwhile, technology constitutes our entire environment, not just a set of superfluous gadgets for the affluent. Think of where we'd be without the car. Do you realize pretty much everything has been made around the existence of the car, much of it that wouldn't exist otherwise?  

Not just highways and roads, but our entire living space from restaurants and malls would not exist at all in the form that they do without the car. This is not to mention many things that would not exist at all without the car. One such element is suburbia, which will vanish just as surely as the personal automobile.

Technology shapes the entire scope and most often the depth of our lives. It is the environment that is 'the real conditioner' and shaper of man's, and any organism's existence.

Science fiction is our thermostat and early warning system to the future. We look and experience new events on the basis of much of what it predicts. Much of our experience of life is set in terms of stories. And yet, for the most part, so far, science fiction has omitted the deeply personal from its realm, leaving much of our actual psycho-personal future a blank.

The time for media like the novel, film and music as entertainment, is over. As artists gain more and more control over what in the past, had to be run by large scale production budgets, due to the advent of new low-cost media, we enter a time where these forms can actually be considered the kind of high art that had before been reserved for artwork like sculpture and paintings.

I aspire for my novel series to be among the first of such stories.