The Big Idea: Steven T. Gibbon

Sure, the world is ending, but there’s laundry to do and groceries to get. Most of us are not the revolutionary hero we wish we were, as author Steven T. Gibbon points out in the Big Idea for his newest novel, Lipsnitch Snilly, but maybe we can start the dishwasher and contribute to the world all in one day. STEVEN T. GIBBON: I love fantasy, high and low, and I love to read about imagined worlds and mystical powers beyond all comprehension, but I have never felt any particular kinship with knights or dashing rogues or great heroes. It is very rare, in my experience, that a person with the right combination of traits is presented with the right historical opportunity to enshrine themselves as anyone of particular note in the dustbin of history. Most of us are too complacent, too afraid, too invested in the lives we hold precious to respond to the cry in our moral centers. We do not often talk about what it really takes to rise to the occasion of a John Brownian act of heroic…