When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
Rick YanceySci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.
Rick YanceyA man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
Rick YanceyHow oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
Rick YanceyBut if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
Rick Yancey