Goodreads asked Jack Castle:

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

Jack Castle I first got the idea for Europa Journal as a little boy growing up in Florida. My Uncle Tony, who fought in WW II, came over to my house one day and gave me a TBM Avenger toy plane. He told me the story of how five torpedo bomber planes mysteriously vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. My interest was peaked. Like most little boys, I was also into Star Trek and Star Wars. So it wasn’t long before my friends and I were dressing up as WW II pilots and flying our TBM Avengers, (substituted by my dad’s box trailer on the side of the house), and crash landing on alien worlds. Over the next three decades that alien universe grew as I traveled the globe.

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