Robert Culliton
Recently I published my first book, called The Yellowstone Group. While the book is set in Manhattan and Wyoming, I drew a lot of inspiration for it from the various places I've lived: almost all of which have suffered environmental degradation that is visible to the naked eye for anyone living there.
The not so distant futu.... more
Recently I published my first book, called The Yellowstone Group. While the book is set in Manhattan and Wyoming, I drew a lot of inspiration for it from the various places I've lived: almost all of which have suffered environmental degradation that is visible to the naked eye for anyone living there.
The not so distant future has always interested me more than any other slice of humanity's past or present. Despite the central premise of the book - a cooling earth - there is nothing radically different or fantastic about it relative to settings that actually exist today.
I've been fortunate to be exposed to a lot of great books and people that I'm sure influenced what I ended up writing. Permanent authors on my bookshelf include Melville, Murakami, and Christopher Paolini.
Since I was a teenager, the prospect of fully conceiving of a different world and bringing it to life was a task I found both daunting and fascinating, so I'm excited to now finally be able to share this project I've been working on for the last several years.