Mike Carey
It was one of those situations (like Girl With All the Gifts) where I wrote a short story for an anthology and then kept on playing around with the voice and the concepts. The short in this case was called All That's Red Earth, and I wrote it for a PS Publishing collection called Weird Winter Tales. It's a million miles from what Koli eventually became, but that was how it all started. All the furniture of Koli's world - the feral vegetation, the legacy tech, the Ramparts - was built around the idea of Koli as a character and the naive, earnest voice I'd given him.
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@mike Carey I loved it. Simple thought the world of it. Too short sadly but I can’t wait for the next one. Writers like yourself are the reason I keep reading. I have a difficult time of it with the market so saturated with indie writers. The writing standard has gone so far down the drain, it is almost comical. You have it all, the love for your characters, the imagination for the storyline, the linguistical prowess?
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