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Goodreads asked Timothy G.M. Reynolds:

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

Timothy G.M. Reynolds "The Broken Shield" started with the bottle-picker mentioned above and asking myself the simple question: 'what if that bottle picker isn't who we think he is, but he's a hero saving the world, even as he picks bottles?'

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