Recently, I’ve come across a neat serialized story that Nate Herzog has been running out on his website, Caperchase titled Muckruckers. There’s a smallish segment published every week. He’s described the story as “people trying to deal with technology and technology trying to deal with people”, and it’s an interesting, almost William Gibsonian style of near-future science fiction. Most interestingly, it takes place here in Vermont. We recently had a couple of minutes to chat with Nate about his story.
Geek Mountain State: Tell me a little bit about yourself: how did you get interested in science fiction / near future fiction and writing?
Nate Herzog: I’ve always been a genre fiction fan. I read anything I find interesting, but the writers I really collect tend to be genre fiction writers. Some of my favorite writers started breaking away from traditional sci-fi and started writing a lot more near fiction and historical fiction. Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Charles Stross are three of my favorite writers that are doing this. Their work is exciting because not only is it very well written and thoughtful, but the foreign techo-societies they describe aren’t that far away from today. It’s technology that we could have, given a little extra time and if events line up just so. It’s fun to line up that kind of speculation against the narrative that is the present and start dreaming of what might happen in my lifetime.
I studied creative writing in college but then I had a chance to get a job at the 1996 Olympic games if I took some media studies courses (yep, that dates me), so I pulled a double minor in Art (Photography) and Media Communications. When I returned back home to Minnesota after being in Atlanta, there weren’t a lot of opportunities in media at the time. Instead I fell into computer support and accidentally got into a career in IT. Writing has always been part of my life, but until recently was kinda dormant while the career took up so much time.
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