Goodreads asked Guy Burt:

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

Guy Burt The novel I've been working on for the past couple of years – after a long, long hiatus from book-writing – came from thinking about how scared I was of nuclear war back in the 1980s. As a kid I was convinced that World War 3 was just around the corner; I read post-apocalyptic pulp fiction avidly; I tried to plan how I'd survive if the nukes fell. So the novel is centred around that fear.

It's also an unashamed paean to geekdom: all those hours spent programming Spectrums and BBC Bs, painting D&D miniatures and reading Judge Dredd, long before being a geek became retro-fashionable, creep into the book.

And it's also a love story, of sorts.

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