![]() ![]() On another level, it’s also very much, I think, similar to a crime novel in its characters and approach. ![]() So on one level it’s a fantasy - it’s about angels, it’s about demons, it’s about all that stuff. But then things begin to get stranger, and other odd things happen in the Cold War between heaven and hell, and he winds up in a lot deeper than he had expected. The main character, Bobby Dollar, is an earth-bound angel who’s part of the process of earthly souls being judged after the people die. Tad Williams: The initial idea was about the similar nature between the standard version of heaven versus hell - the classic, Western, Judeo-Christian idea that has developed - and the way that the Cold War was actually run, where the whole thing was sort of happening under the surface and all of the struggle was to an extent not noticed by most people most of the time. Wired: Tell us about your new book The Dirty Streets of Heaven. Or listen to the interview in Episode 69 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (above), which also features a panel discussion between hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Genevieve Valentine about angels and heaven in fantasy and science fiction. Read our complete interview with Tad Williams below, in which he discusses his new novel, The Dirty Streets of Heaven, a noir mystery about an earth-bound angel who gets caught up in a plot involving missing souls. “To Peter’s great credit, and probably the thing that will keep me out of hell for this one, he immediately forgave me and laughed and thought it was a really good idea,” says Williams. It was years before Williams finally fessed up. He became good friends with editor Betsy Wollheim and her husband, Peter, who’d been the one to laboriously photocopy the 500-page manuscript. The publisher ended up buying the book, and is still Williams’ publisher 30 years later. “I was also hoping like hell that they didn’t know that basically California was in the middle of an eight-year drought, and that there’s almost no such thing as basements in California,” says Williams in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. ![]()
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