Ask the Author: Stephen Moss
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Stephen Moss
I am currently finishing up Book 2 in the Fear Saga, Fear the Survivors. It should be ready this week, so I am very excited about that. The final chapter in the trilogy is already 50% drafted as well, so that will be out by the end of this year. I also have a new project I am working on, The Similar Infinites, which should be ready early in 2015.
Stephen Moss
With The Fear Saga, I really wanted to explore what it would be like to encounter an alien race, not as equals, because anyone that can get here from another world would vastly, vastly superior to us technologically, but as the receivers of either their mercy or their wrath, a pawn in a greater power play.
I wanted to explore what it would be like for us to feel the way so many great civilizations of Earth must have before they were lost to the ages because they clashed with a greater power, like the Incas and the Aztecs for example, not to mention the technologically limited but often societally inspiring Native American tribes now subsumed into, and under western culture.
Of course, just to have it be a story of obliteration would be a frankly uninspiring tale, so instead I considered that, because we would be encountering an entire world, not, for example, just a few opportunists from a European superpower, the chances of organized and broad dissent among even the upper echelons of the coming force would be possible, even likely, and it would be on that, not our own devices, that our fate would hinge.
Not a happy tale, perhaps, but I hope it is an engaging one, and am very excited and proud of the way it is taking shape. I am well into writing the final book now and have to say even I am surprised at where it has gone.
But no spoilers. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know what you think.
I wanted to explore what it would be like for us to feel the way so many great civilizations of Earth must have before they were lost to the ages because they clashed with a greater power, like the Incas and the Aztecs for example, not to mention the technologically limited but often societally inspiring Native American tribes now subsumed into, and under western culture.
Of course, just to have it be a story of obliteration would be a frankly uninspiring tale, so instead I considered that, because we would be encountering an entire world, not, for example, just a few opportunists from a European superpower, the chances of organized and broad dissent among even the upper echelons of the coming force would be possible, even likely, and it would be on that, not our own devices, that our fate would hinge.
Not a happy tale, perhaps, but I hope it is an engaging one, and am very excited and proud of the way it is taking shape. I am well into writing the final book now and have to say even I am surprised at where it has gone.
But no spoilers. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know what you think.
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