Another close encounter at a bookfair…
It really happened to another science fiction writer. I took some liberties towards the obvious flying saucer conspiracy theory…
It is more difficult to manage than the Zombie fan, or the angry fan (to come) because you want to stay polite, but the obvious awkwardness of the paranoid fan pushes other visitors away from your signing table!
And yes, there is a direct X-Files influence on that one! I loved the series despite the dark angle, for reasons too numerous to cite here. The humor, among them.
Echoes of a Sunday artist 