Goodreads asked Leo X. Robertson:

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

Leo X. Robertson Hm. I'll say something about upcoming stuff later, but Findesferas came about through my chats with my Paraguayan husband's grandmother; she talked a lot about the wars that went on in their home country in the past; I investigated and found it really interesting. And whenever I go into a bookshop and look at the historical/ war fiction, so much of it is World War II; when I look at the popular scientific non-fiction, so much of it is astrophysics. So I wanted to combine the non-fictional science that interests me as a chemical engineer as well as re-tell the story of the war that devastated Paraguay, and I'm very pleased with the results.

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