"I always start the process of writing a book with journaling. "I am making fast and furious notes on my next book," he says. "Joel Edgerton is starring as Jason Dessen, the protagonist, and we're in prep right now."Ĭrouch reveals that he has also started work on another novel.
"We're filming a nine-episode series, it will be for Apple, it will film in Chicago," says the author. He is now the showrunner of a TV adaptation of Dark Matter about a physicist who is kidnapped by a version of himself from another dimension. The writer is best known for his Wayward Pines trilogy of novels, which were turned into a two-season Fox show on which Crouch worked as a producer. It just seemed like I had to buckle down, do the research, and find my way into the story."īallantine Books Cover of 'Upgrade' by Blake CrouchĬrouch certainly has plenty on his plate. After Recursion, I thought, we're right on the precipice of being able to wield gene-modifying tools that can change our DNA almost like magic and I have to write about this. "I started to dig in to the research, and it was so daunting I decided not to do it. "After I finished Dark Matter, I really wanted to write a book that tackled gene-editing," he says. As the book opens, Logan is exposed to something in a lab he's raiding, wakes up in a hospital, and suspects that he's been exposed to some sort of a gene-editing package that is about to change his body and his mind spectacularly."Ĭrouch initially planned on writing Upgrade several years ago but was put off by the vast amount of research the book required. We come into this world where her son Logan is trying to make amends, and he works for the Gene Protection Agency, which was created as a reaction to what his mom did, to stamp out illegal gene editing. The Gene Protection Act came in in the wake of the Great Starvation and essentially ended all gene-editing research, because people said, we can't ever have this happen again. Instead of fixing this one thing, she ends up plunging us into what came to be known as the Great Starvation. "Twenty-some years prior to the events of the book, his mom, Miriam, who was a world-renowned geneticist, was in China with this wild gene-modifying tool she created, trying to edit this rice blight out of a crop. "The protagonist is a guy named Logan Ramsey," says Crouch, whose previous books include 2016's Dark Matter, and 2019's Recursion. Matthew Staver 'Upgrade' author Blake Crouch
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