Why do we like villains?

I recently read this article in the New York times by Anna Gunn, the actress that plays Skyler White in Breaking Bad about how much hate her character gets. It was surprising to me how obsessive people can get about a fictional character (death threats.. really??), but, not surprising to me that people tend to …

The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest

Yes, it's another Priest book. I can't seem to stop reading them. This one features a desolate future plagued by terrorism and war. Our protagonist, Tarent, is a photographer who's wife is killed by a new kind of weapon that obliterates anything within the area of an equilateral triangle shaped explosion. Upon returning home to London …