Goodreads asked Keith Soares:

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

Keith Soares My most recent book is not quite out yet - in editing as of this writing - but its a sort of new-fangled superhero origin story title For I Could Lift My Finger and Black Out the Sun.

It came from pondering the origin of superheroes like Superman, who is after all, an alien. But why does Superman, the alien life form, look identical to a human? Does that make any sense? What other form might a super-powered alien take? And what would its intentions be? Why would it want to preserve mankind, if it indeed wanted to do such a thing?

And the conclusion I came to was that this alien life form, even with super powers, would have only one overriding desire: self-preservation. If protecting humans preserves its life, then that's what it will do.

But what would it look like, and how would it get here? Those were fun puzzles to figure out.

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