Gary
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Joel Shepherd:
Joel, Excellent job on the Kresnov series! Nice to see a strong female character in SF. I started my SF with the 'oldies' like Clifford Simak and Jo Clayton with a solid dash of Frank Herbert. It was nice to see you come back to Cassandra K after the original trilogy was complete BTW. The Spiral Wars is very interestimg with lots of depth. Have you considered writing a series on the Krim Wars with humanity?
Joel Shepherd
Hi Gary. I thought about it, but the Krim Wars are just too depressing. They were five hundred years of horror, that only started looking up in the last two hundred... but even then, humanity had become drastically less interesting to write about because all the diversity and political stuff that I like disappeared after Earth was lost. I like the period I'm writing in now, because things have become complicated and messy again, just how I like it.
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James Crutchley
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Joel Shepherd:
Just started reading you latest book. A few chapters in and character development seems a little slow to me. I loved the android books you have written and wanted to know if this new book is as high tech or does it go off in a different direction? I liked how much military scifi and tech were in your Kresnov books and was curious if this followed along those lines?
Superuser
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Joel Shepherd:
I am very pleased to have found a new author to follow Joel. Your new series is very well made and you found a great narrator for the audio version. Thanks for that! Please work hard on your next book, i can't wait! :) Do you map out the personalities before you write the book or do they just emerge during the writing process?
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