Published in January by Random House Worlds, "Detour" is the new mystery sci-fi novel from veteran TV writer Jeff Rake ("Manifest") and bestselling author Rob Hart ("The Warehouse") Laced with mind-warping essences of "The Twilight Zone" and "Lost," this eerie outer space adventure is a perfect read for fans of books like Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary", as a spaceship crew returns from Saturn's blue-green moon of Titan to discover that the Earththe left behind has become a very different place.We connected with Rake and Hart to dip into the origins of their twisted thriller and how this fortuitous creative partnership formed to produce one of the year's most compelling reads. Check out the interview below, then stay tuned for the short exclusive excerpt from "Detour" at the end.
"I've been writing TV for about 25 years and was brainstorming high-concept ideas that could be a potential sci-fi show,” Rake tells Space. "I was coming off 'Manifest,' a show I created that started on NBC and ended up on Netflix. That show wrapped up three years ago, and I was asking myself what's next. I landed some broad strokes for 'Detour' and went in to talk to my agent."We pitched it out, and one of the agents said it felt sort of novelistic and asked what I thought about developing it as a book, then down the line, maybe adapting it for television. That was incredibly intimidating to me. I didn't know how to write a book, so they ended up finding me a partner and sent me a bunch of books to read. I stopped reading after I got to Rob Hart's 'The Warehouse.'"
