![]() ![]() I think Bobby actually says something to the effect of that they think that’s all just PR and that they have a perfectly good chance to win, and since they sort of represent the chaos side of things-I don’t know how well you know Michael Moorcock’s cosmology of law and chaos. ![]() But in your book, you suggest that they think they’re going to win. I’ve always wondered why the forces of hell would show up at Armageddon if they know they’re going to lose. The heavenly bureaucracy is huge and complicated, and the people at the bottom have only the dimmest idea of where their orders are coming from. ![]() Nobody he knows has ever met God, just as an example. Well, one of the interesting things about the book, I think, is that how the universe really works is not necessarily apparent to the minions down at the bottom end, of which our main character is one. When you’re writing a book where the protagonist works for God, if God is all-powerful, is it a challenge then to create problems for your protagonist? On another level, it’s also very much, I think, similar to a crime novel in its characters and approach. So on one level it’s a fantasy-it’s about angels, it’s about demons, it’s about all that stuff. But then things begin to get stranger, and other odd things happen in the Cold War between heaven and hell, and he winds up in a lot deeper than he had expected. The main character, Bobby Dollar, is an Earth-bound angel who’s part of the process of Earthly souls being judged after the people die. The initial idea was about the similar nature between the standard version of heaven versus hell-the classic, Western, Judeo-Christian idea that has developed-and the way that the Cold War was actually run, where the whole thing was sort of happening under the surface and all of the struggle was, to an extent, not noticed by most people most of the time. So tell us about your new book, The Dirty Streets of Heaven. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the hosts discuss various geeky topics. This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Comics, first with the miniseries The Next, and then doing a stint on Aquaman. A collection of his short work, Rite, was released in 2006. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and in the anthologies Legends and Legends II. He has also written several other novels, such as Tailchaser’s Song, The War of the Flowers, and The Dragons of Ordinary Farm, which was co-written with his wife, Deborah Beale. Tad Williams is the bestselling author of the Memory, Sorrow & Thorn series, the Otherland series, and the Shadowmarch series.
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