Rusty's Ghost Engine (also known as.......... Jinky Spring)
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Mike A. Lancaster:
What was your main inspiration behind the .4 series?
Mike A. Lancaster
Hey, that's a good question. Hopefully the answer isn't too boring!
As often happens, the inspiration for the series was inspired by a simple observation, filtered though my imagination.
I was upgrading the operating system on my Mac, watching the processes as it it upgraded, and I realised that the latest OS X was reusing some parts of the old OS, whilst overwriting other parts. I idly wondered what the bits that were being overwritten would feel about the upgrade, and what the parts that were untouched would make of the new environment they were now operating within.
The idea kept churning around in my brain, refusing to leave (which is how I tend to recognise when an idea is good enough to put down on paper), evolving and growing with every passing day.
A week or so later the plot for 0.4 (Human.4) arrived at the front of my mind, pretty much fully formed.
As often happens, the inspiration for the series was inspired by a simple observation, filtered though my imagination.
I was upgrading the operating system on my Mac, watching the processes as it it upgraded, and I realised that the latest OS X was reusing some parts of the old OS, whilst overwriting other parts. I idly wondered what the bits that were being overwritten would feel about the upgrade, and what the parts that were untouched would make of the new environment they were now operating within.
The idea kept churning around in my brain, refusing to leave (which is how I tend to recognise when an idea is good enough to put down on paper), evolving and growing with every passing day.
A week or so later the plot for 0.4 (Human.4) arrived at the front of my mind, pretty much fully formed.
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Akshat Ramanathan
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Mike A. Lancaster:
I just love the way you write!! Just finished the first book! It took me 6 hours straight and I didn't even know how time flew!!! A really awesome book with a tragic ending!! Its one the rare books that drew me in and just found out thai its part of a series! Now Im relieved that Kyle and Lilly still have a long way to go... Cheers Mike! you are Royally Awesome ;) Do you plan on writing more Sci-Fi books?
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