Bob
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Glynn Stewart:
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(view spoiler)[I've just finished The Terran Privateer (Duchy of Terra Book 1)
last night and wanted to say that a buddy of mine and I really enjoyed it.
We are waiting ... ;-) for the next one in this series with bated breath. Thanks once again for bringing these characters to life for us to read about.
When you were building the background for Ki!Tana what was your inspiration? (hide spoiler)]
last night and wanted to say that a buddy of mine and I really enjoyed it.
We are waiting ... ;-) for the next one in this series with bated breath. Thanks once again for bringing these characters to life for us to read about.
When you were building the background for Ki!Tana what was your inspiration? (hide spoiler)]
Glynn Stewart
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(view spoiler)[Ki!Tana's background and story grew out of a few things.
Firstly, I wanted the A!Tol to be both understandable and truly alien, and their biology was one of the places I I wanted them to be very alien.
Once I'd thought through the consequences of that, mixed with modern medicine, and came to the result of the birthing madness, it made sense to me that *some* would survive it.
Ki!Tana herself is born of several myths and stories I've encountered over the years of royalty or other famous personages ended up as slaves and lending their wisdom and knowledge to their owners when those owners are decent people.
She also draws a lot of inspiration from mythology around trickster and elder gods, most specifically Odin.
I don't generally have a specific inspiration for most components of my stories, just bits pulled from trivia, history, and pop culture that I've consumed over the years.
The above is everything I can directly trace Ki!Tana to, though I'm sure there are other components as well that I'm forgetting at this point. (hide spoiler)]
Firstly, I wanted the A!Tol to be both understandable and truly alien, and their biology was one of the places I I wanted them to be very alien.
Once I'd thought through the consequences of that, mixed with modern medicine, and came to the result of the birthing madness, it made sense to me that *some* would survive it.
Ki!Tana herself is born of several myths and stories I've encountered over the years of royalty or other famous personages ended up as slaves and lending their wisdom and knowledge to their owners when those owners are decent people.
She also draws a lot of inspiration from mythology around trickster and elder gods, most specifically Odin.
I don't generally have a specific inspiration for most components of my stories, just bits pulled from trivia, history, and pop culture that I've consumed over the years.
The above is everything I can directly trace Ki!Tana to, though I'm sure there are other components as well that I'm forgetting at this point. (hide spoiler)]
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Andrea
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Hello! I just read through the currently released Castle Federation books and they were great! I read a lot of sci-fi of the "navy in the space" kind, and yours rate among the best in my opinion. Two questions: Are more books in the plans at the moment? Will you flesh out a bit more the Commonwealth politics and entities, or mostly focus on battles and the development of the main characters? Thanks and keep it up!
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