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Goodreads asked Howard A. Rodman:

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

Howard A. Rodman From a childhood love affair with the works of Jules Verne; from a later enrapturement with Moby-Dick; from a chance encounter with the name Isambard Kingdom Brunel. And then: with the notion that Captain Nemo, Captain Ahab, and Brunel belonged in the same novel. And that I wanted to read that novel. And that no one else was going to write it.

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