Ask the Author: Jerry A. Dowless Jr.
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Jerry A. Dowless Jr.
It's the dance with my own imagination, summoning into existence worlds and individuals that otherwise wouldn't exist, and giving them a solidity and a reality through words that they otherwise wouldn't have. There is something about writing that is a bit magical that way.
Jerry A. Dowless Jr.
My advice to them is to give me advice, because I have figured out precisely nothing about anything at this point. :)
Jerry A. Dowless Jr.
In January 2009 I was in the hospital, sick with a serious infection. My company was the second volume of Neal Stephenson's baroque trilogy, The Confusion. It was one of the most powerful reading experience's of my life. It got me thinking about the role of history in shaping the present. Of course, I'd had an interest in alternate history long before that, having read Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle long before that. But coming out of that experience, I knew I wanted to write a different type of alternate history, one that wasn't going to be a dystopia, one set in Renaissance Europe, one which would be set at the dawn of the alternate world and not at its conclusion, where part of the suspense would be the nature of the world being created, and its difference from our own.
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