Goodreads asked Ken L. Gould:

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

Ken L. Gould I read a lot of Scientific American and have since college, which has kept me up on science, which I would certainly have forgotten had I not read that magazine every month for over 20 years. Anyway, I read an article about these rodents and an experiment where these cool researchers put them into hibernation. Don't worry, the rodents turned out fine, though some pigs didn't fare so well. I always wanted to work it into a story, so I did, though my first attempts were clumsy and amateurish at best. The stem cells were simply a way of healing someone and perhaps doing something which is on the horizon but not yet realized. That is, growing whole organs. Then I realized stem cells had some very interesting uses, if one had no ethical boundaries. And hence, Death's Grip was born. Throw all that together, plumb it's depths, as it were, and it made for one interesting tale. Enjoy!

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