Goodreads asked Allan Brewer:

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

Allan Brewer The initial impetus for this book was a frustration with some 'wrong turns' in human history, and a desire to voice alternatives to them, even if just in fiction. But as the developing story and characters took on their own life, those initial ideas were discarded in favour of more subtle and satisfying threads of narrative. I don't know if that happens for other authors, but for me anyway, the original idea for the story was just a place to start from, and is not now actually included in the final story.

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