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Qukatheg
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Patrick Canning:
I've just read Cryptofauna and I loved all the wildly imaginative things happening in the book. I was wondering where you got your inspiration?
Patrick Canning
Hey Qukatheg—I'm not entirely sure!
Jim assembling his combo is kind of Wizard of Oz-cribbed. With all the bizarre elements of the game/weird creatures/etc., I thought it would be helpful for the story framework to be something relatively familiar so readers have a chance to get on board before/while the story makes its strange stops. It was also my first book, so the gameplan was to a throw anything and everything in, no wrong answers, and worry about a unifying logic later on. Thanks for reading!
Jim assembling his combo is kind of Wizard of Oz-cribbed. With all the bizarre elements of the game/weird creatures/etc., I thought it would be helpful for the story framework to be something relatively familiar so readers have a chance to get on board before/while the story makes its strange stops. It was also my first book, so the gameplan was to a throw anything and everything in, no wrong answers, and worry about a unifying logic later on. Thanks for reading!
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