Severance is a novel about what happens when the machinations of modern life—economic, emotional, technological—outlive their purpose.

The books have already been written and readers are already reaching for them. So why don’t we have a name for them?

I watch television in the same way I read a book—looking for the unspoken.

A reader admonished me the other day. He told me I shouldn’t have written this book. It was a warning.

Not all tech-driven stories are about explosions or dystopias.