Having humans be the real monsters is so common in post-apocalyptic stories that it’s moved past being a trope and is now a cliché. Which is why Gene Doucette avoided it like the plague when writing his “cozy apocalypse” novel, The Apocalypse Seven (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Doucette explains what inspired and influenced this story, and why he decided to buck convention.
In his self-published science fiction novel The Spaceship Next Door, sci-fi writer Gene Doucette presented a world where aliens land on Earth…and then nothing happens for a couple years. With Spaceship being newly reprinted in paperback, and Kindle by John Joseph Adams Books, I took the opportunity to send Mr. Doucette some questions about the novel’s origins and influences for the following email interview.