Colorado’s Front Range shaped Peter Heller’s novel ‘The Dog Stars.’ Now it’s a Ridley Scott film.
When Peter Heller sat down to write his first novel, “The Dog Stars,” he didn’t intend to write a post-apocalypse story. But he wrote its first lines — “I keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks” — with no plan, and that’s …