Ask the Author: Mark Brendan
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Mark Brendan
It started with rail guns. I unashamedly love sci-fi weapons and tech porn, so that was my world building start point--there'd be rail guns. My initial thoughts were for a Rail Gunner character, "have rail gun, will travel". That guy turned into something very different, ending as Ares, the kid who commands rail gun equipped tanks with his mind. Next up came the setting, which I quickly decided would be Mars, featuring a near future off-planet colony. As I thought more about Mars and conflict, the word Martiangrad popped into my head. At that point I had enough to set to it and started planning the structure, the support characters and the beats
Mark Brendan
Usually by getting angry about something :-D I dislike power and authority, so the game fiction and backgrounds I do tend to reflect that, and my novels and short stories are often about challenging the prevailing hegemony
Mark Brendan
Final prep on a science fiction tabletop game before it goes to Kickstarter, and I'm starting to pull together an overview/structure for the sequel to my novel Son of Mars
Mark Brendan
Autonomy, in a word. I'm solely responsible for the work I produce, and therefore not reliant on anyone else to hold up their end
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