m. c. de marco

At io9, interviews with four authors who may or may not have left the genre. Most notable of the bunch was Mary Doria Russell, whose next novel will be a Western—-pretty much the only genre with less demographic appeal than science fiction, so maybe it will drive her back into the fold.

This new book is in some ways a classical Western about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, but I see John Henry Holliday as a heartbreaking figure: born in the antebellum South, educated in the North for a professional life in the East, trying not to die on the rawest frontier of the West.