THERE’S A VERY GOOD REASON WHY IT’S taken Jane Rogers so long to complete her second science fiction novel, Body Tourists. “I was extremely ill for a while,” she says, matter of factly. This is an understatement. On 2 January 2014, Rogers suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a life-threatening condition related to a brain aneurysm, which left her in a coma.
“I speak to you courtesy of the fact that I have a small piece of platinum in my brain, which has blocked the aneurysm, and now I am completely fine,” she says. “There were about three weeks where I was out of it and my family was told I probably wouldn’t be able to write or speak, so it was extremely horrible for them. For me, it was fine because I didn’t even know.”
Rogers jokes about this as an experience that gave her “no material whatsoever”, unlike those who see lights, feel pain and have “horrible emotions”, but as she well knows, she was lucky. Just 1% of people survive this kind of episode “without harm”. From the off in recovery, she says, she was determined she would get back to work again. “I’ve still got the little bits of writing that I did to see if I could [do it], and they’re very wobbly,” she says.
INHABITING THE YOUNG
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PURE AND SIMPLE
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TO CAP IT ALL OFF
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD'S SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
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SEASON OF THE WITCH
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Ghouls Allowed
Even silence can't save you at this year's Halloween Horror Nights