Attn: Anyone who needs a book idea

Before my boyfriend visited my parents’ house for Easter, I warned him that some members of my family can harbor unorthodox views.

I used the time that my father decided that the future of warfare would involve national space programs “nudging” comets so that they were on a collision path with enemy territory as an example.

“You’re kidding,” my boyfriend said.

But I assured him I was not – comet missiles are only a matter of time, as far as my father was concerned.

And if on the off-chance that doesn’t happen, I think it would make for an excellent science fiction book. They write about all kinds of junk these days, like “an ascetic tribe of half-animal beings chances upon a device with the power to rewrite time and erase history, and sets off across a post-apocalyptic America to find a way to destroy it.”

That plot was included in a news release issued by first-time novelist Ben Goodridge – who by the way – happens to be “on a crusade,” according to the release headline.

Against what, I’m not sure. But I hope the fight involves comets.