Goodreads asked Michael Pugh:

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

Michael Pugh My most recent book is Sergeant Cuddlington and The War At Sea, which is a short book containing two short stories. The book is an anti-war piece and I got the ideas for the stories at different times. The idea for The War At Sea developed out of a need I had to discuss war and how modern societies find themselves at war. I condensed thousands of years of history into a few pages and to give it the scale it needed I realised that I would need to have a cast of billions; sentient beans seemed the only way to go!
The Sergeant Cuddlington idea came from a conversation I had with my wife in the car. Ideas come like that when you can talk with somebody freely without feeling silly.

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