oday’s white-optic televisual landscape teems with what I call white-regenerative narratives—stories in which worn-out, broken, or morally adrift white dudes are reinvigorated through contact with Brown suffering.

Sanctuary is about escaping a horrific regime, while Solis focuses on fighting back to build a better world.

I wanted to conceive of the future in a radically different way. One where the new gens look to philosophy, literature, art & science. . .

It’s a way to intentionally affirm the Otherness that a conformist mainstream throws at youth.

I wanted Max Rodriguez to hit the hard truths but also, and overwhelmingly, to take readers to places of joy and compassion.

While the borderlands shape each protagonist differently, their individual stories thread together to form a greater tapestry.