As Lord Acton so smartly said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But what if that power is super? It’s what’s explored in Bob Proehl’s new sci-fi novel The Somebody People (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the companion in a duology with last year’s The Nobody People. In the following email interview, Proehl discusses what inspired and influenced this second half of the story.
With superpowered people being treated badly by their government and fellow citizens, it’s pretty obvious that Bob Proehls’ sci-fi novel The Nobody People (paperback, Kindle) was inspired by both The X-Men and what’s been going on in the real world. But in the following email interview, he explains how his story differs from The X-Men, what else inspired this tale, and his plans to complete this saga in a second book.
In his debut novel, A Hundred Thousand Worlds (hardcover, digital), writer Bob Proehl follows a mother and son as they travel the comic book convention circuit from New York to Los Angeles. But while the book is steeped in comic book culture, fandom, and comic book convention lore, it’s not just a collection of Spider-Man references and Superman jokes, as I learned when I spoke to Proehl about the book.