Ask the Author: Martin Rodoreda
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Martin Rodoreda
The idea for Salvage came on slowly, as my concern of our treatment of the environment grew, and societies transition away from fossil fuels continued to falter under mis-information and propaganda campaigns run by the mining industry. My motivations to write the book became far stronger when I started a family of my own. I imagined myself in a broken, polluted future, being asked by my children why I didn't do more to try and change things. I knew I had to do something. I was writing already, and it struck me as a way to reach and influence more people than anything else I could think of.
But of course, I didn't want to write a dry, non-fiction book. I love the fantasy and speculative fiction world, and I wanted to write about something that would entertain as well as inspire. The setting of Salvage draws influence from a whole range of sources. Growing up I played plenty of Necromunda (a Games Workshop game) and I loved the concept of a gritty gang-based world. Terminator 2 was another influence; the small glimpses of the future world were simultaneously fascinating and horrifying and a type of environment I knew I'd love to write about. And of course there were the far more horrifying images of the tsunami's the tsunami's that struck in the 2000's. Being fact, not fiction, these images were powerful and devastating, and something that I knew I could draw on.
But of course, I didn't want to write a dry, non-fiction book. I love the fantasy and speculative fiction world, and I wanted to write about something that would entertain as well as inspire. The setting of Salvage draws influence from a whole range of sources. Growing up I played plenty of Necromunda (a Games Workshop game) and I loved the concept of a gritty gang-based world. Terminator 2 was another influence; the small glimpses of the future world were simultaneously fascinating and horrifying and a type of environment I knew I'd love to write about. And of course there were the far more horrifying images of the tsunami's the tsunami's that struck in the 2000's. Being fact, not fiction, these images were powerful and devastating, and something that I knew I could draw on.
Martin Rodoreda
Everything inspires me to write! Books, movies, conversations, real life yields an endless supply of story ideas. I constantly look for ways I can take cool elements or ideas I've stumbled across and apply them to a setting or to characters I'm interested in.
A lot of the troubling stuff going on also inspires me to write. I always strive to mesh entertainment with positive messaging in my books, as with the environmental themes in Salvage.
My biggest problem is not getting inspired to write, but finding the time to spend on turning all my ideas into fully-fledged stories!
A lot of the troubling stuff going on also inspires me to write. I always strive to mesh entertainment with positive messaging in my books, as with the environmental themes in Salvage.
My biggest problem is not getting inspired to write, but finding the time to spend on turning all my ideas into fully-fledged stories!
Martin Rodoreda
I'm currently working on an Historical Fiction series set in Ancient Greece. Don't worry; it's not another take on the Persian Wars or the 300! It's set a few decades after this, during the lesser known Peloponnesian Wars; effectively a civil war between Athens and Sparta.
While it's a very different environment from my debut book Salvage, it has the same energy and fast-pace. And for history lovers, I'm aiming for a much more authentic treatment of the period, unlike some of the movies that have been set in this part of history in recent years.
While it's a very different environment from my debut book Salvage, it has the same energy and fast-pace. And for history lovers, I'm aiming for a much more authentic treatment of the period, unlike some of the movies that have been set in this part of history in recent years.
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