“We are little teeny fleas on a very temperamental dog,” Brooks said. So they’ve been there long enough to understand where they should be in relation to large events that may happen every 500 years,” he said, alluding to volcanoes, earthquakes and droughts.īut in North America, he explained, we decided to build New Orleans in a bowl below sea level and San Fransisco on a shaky peninsula, surrounded by volcanoes. “Most cities around the world are time tested, they are thousands of years old.
Lamberson opened the discussion with a tongue-in-cheek question: “What do you (Brooks) have against Washington state that you can take our pretty mountain, blow it up, cause death and destruction and then send a horde of marauding, murderous sasquatches in, too?”īrooks, the son of comedian/director Mel Brooks, explained that his problem with the state is the same problem he has with North America as a whole: We’re too new to be safe. Soon after the last residents move in, the group’s high-tech, utopian dream shatters when Mount Rainier erupts, cutting the community off from civilization.Īs animals start venturing out of the forest in search of food, evidence of a mysterious, humanoid predator with large feet emerges and the residents of Greenloop begin to wonder whether the volcano isn’t the only thing chasing them out. The story follows the city-raised residents of “Greenloop,” an eco-community settled near Mount Rainier. New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks (“World War Z”) joined Carolyn Lamberson for a Northwest Passages Book Club livestream to discuss his new horror novel, “Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre” Thursday night.
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