The books have this deep, rich love of food and talk about the various feasts they have. You look at the type of stuff that George Martin does in his books versus what they do in Game of Thrones, and there’re whole parts of what makes the books the books that you just can’t translate to the screen. As long as you entertain them, as long as you keep the story going, they’ll accept oddities or lulls or sidebars and the like. And the audience for books will be patient and willing to indulge the writer. What is it about the novel form that keeps you coming back to writing prose? What do you enjoy about a novel that you can’t really accomplish with a screenplay?Ĭargill: I guess the biggest thing is that the audiences are different. Paste: Over the past couple of years, you’ve been making a name for yourself in the screenwriting world. (The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.) novels, fully automated luxury gay space communism, and Sea of Rust. Paste called Cargill at his home in Austin, Texas, to talk about writing scripts vs.

Since then, he’s written two novels, Dreams & Shadows and Queen of Dark Things, and contributed to some major Hollywood properties, like Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange directed by Derrickson. His profile has steadily written since hooking up with writer/director Scott Derrickson in 2011, which resulted in the well-received horror-thriller Sinister. Instead, bots and AIs take center stage as they struggle to survive the new, foreboding world they’ve built for themselves.Ĭargill has come a long way since his days as an acerbic Ain’t It Cool News film reviewer in the wild west days of the early blogosphere. An intriguing subversion of the robot-apocalypse genre, the book takes place years after human beings have been exterminated. Robert Cargill’s latest novel, Sea of Rust.

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