Goodreads asked Brandon Alsup:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Brandon Alsup I'm a writer in the sense that I have written a story. I'm not a writer in the sense that I make a living on it or anything. At this point I'm just happy that I scribbled out a story and put a final period in it. Through writing this first book, I realize how much I have to learn. What attracts me to writing is the ability to explore any topic I can dream of and play it out with characters. I enjoy researching and playing with philosophies; writing is the perfect vehicle for shuttling around these tendencies. Here is a sample of some of the search queries I dove into for Engineer Zero: the tensile strength of silk, the progress of nano machines, the temperature in the troposphere, how fast is thought, are holograms you can feel real, what percent of light can we perceive? What is the number of humans in a typical hunter gather tribe? details about quantum mechanics...

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