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Since that day, I’ve written seven more books for youth, including The Monstrumologist and The 5 th Wave, which is about an alien apocalypse that. One day I decided to tell a story about a middle-aged guy who stumbles into an Arthurian adventure and ended up writing a novel for young-adults by accident. I soon realized the more I said, the more I had to say, and saying it in the context of books that people might actually be interested in reading encouraged me to keep saying it. When the time came, I took a real job, got married, raised a family, and began writing books in earnest. They also tried to steer me away from the arts, which they believed to be a soul-crushing, wretched existence (they were wrong) and not something most people would consider real work (they were right). They raised me to be polite, caring and fully cognizant of the fact that I was special but no better than anyone else. I was ripped from my mother’s arms when I was 72 hours old and spent the next eighteen years under the care of two very kind people who are now dead through no real fault of their own. TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? Anyway, here’s Rick to answer the Terribleminds Ten. It is, I think, one of my favorite depictions of an alien invasion ever - it’s brutal stuff.
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I read and adored The Monstrumologist, so when given a chance to interview Rick Yancey about his newest book, The 5th Wave, I was geeked.