We hope you can hold off ordering The Standoff long enough to enjoy our interview with the man behind the alien invasion. Schow, whose latest graphic novel, The Standoff, poses the question: “What if a parasitic alien species crashed in the middle of a maximum security prison?” A finalist in Foreword’s 2019 INDIES Awards, The Standoff is the thrilling Prison Break/The War of the Worlds hybrid we didn’t know we needed, but that we couldn’t put down. Wherever you fall on the gamut of skeptic to believer, there’s no denying the fascination with worlds beyond our own, and, so long as the facts are growing ever stranger than fiction, science fiction will be there to pick up the exposed threads and run with them.Įnter David J. Do these sound like plots from X-Files episodes? Absolutely. Earlier this year, the Pentagon declassified videos of UFO sightings, and scientists detected a repeating pattern in radio signals from deep space. Melting ice sheets are releasing toxins that have been banned for decades, threatening to wreak havoc on an already fragile ecosystem. With every passing day, however, the worlds of science fiction encroach on our reality. While we can be enchanted by the sorcerers and spells of fantasy, transfixed by the twists and turns of a well-plotted mystery, or shed a tear at a moving drama, there is something about science fiction that encapsulates both the best and the worst of us-equally embodying our fears and our hopes. Across all forms of media, science fiction is one genre that has been consistently beloved.
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