I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.
Michael BoatmanI've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.
Michael BoatmanThe only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.
Michael Boatman