Goodreads asked Walter Blaire:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Walter Blaire My newest book is "What the Thunder Said", a long standalone novel set in the Lines of Thunder universe. It has a female protagonist, a menacing living machine, strange "wet" science, and several retro trench battles and artillery duels fought with advanced weaponry. WTTS started with the Cotard Delusion, which is when people believe they are dead and their bodies are decaying. Like a lie you wish you hadn't told, the more I wrote the more lies I had to concoct to support it. At the end of the mad scramble I had this book. The Cotard Delusion was the launching point for something that grew out of control, in a good way.

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