in that sense, redemption is impossible—sin eats into your soul. Even if you can make good with whomever you’ve hurt, you still can’t erase the wounds you’ve done yourself.
Geek Syndicate
GS: The Noir genre is so intrinsically American that I cannot hear The Warden in any other accent. The fantasy genre, however, is largely seen as a European tradition - which we see reflected in the richer parts of your metropolis. Add to the mix a multitude of other racial analogues weaving their way through Low Town and we end up with a real cultural stew bubbling away. How does this multiculturalism inform your story-telling and does it present you with any difficulties? DP: One of the fun things about traveling, or even just living in a major urban environment, is you get a good look at the bizarre and fabulous diversity of the human species. And one of the fun things about writing fantasy is you get to chew up everything you see and then spit them back out in weird ways. The world is a big, strange, exotic, frightening place, and I certainly am trying to invoke some of that sentiment when I’m writing. GS: A strong element in the criminal underworld you portray is the drug trade. It seems to be treated pretty casually by everyone from the gutter to the mansions, and The Warden is thigh-deep in it. Do you see the normalisation of drugs in fiction as the mere acceptance of a social reality? What do you use it for in your stories? DP: One thing that I am trying to do with the Low Town series is to create a fantasy world which at the same time
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seems very familiar, where the reader would be able to find clear parallels between our world and the secondary world I’ve created. Drugs and drug use essentially fuel most of modern crime, so their existence within the world of Low Town is something of a requirement.
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