![]() Jeff Vandermeer has made a career out of shifting narrative perspective away from the human. Here are the books whose ideas and lessons stuck with me. I discovered a few things that might aid your own process if you decide to embrace a non-human narrator (especially in an apocalyptic setting). While I was working on Absolute Unit, I watched a lot of parasite-themed horror movies ( The Thing, obviously, but also a lot of stuff by David Cronenberg and James Gunn) and read a lot of books told from the perspective of insects, rabbits, robots, and more. The final product, Absolute Unit, is a combination of body horror and crime fiction the parasite gets tired of living on scraps and decides to use its budding telekinetic powers to conquer the world. ![]() ![]() I figured a non-human narrator would have some interesting things to say about humanity. A couple years ago, I had the idea to write a novel from the perspective of a sentient, sarcastic parasite living in the gut of a corrupt public health inspector. ![]()
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