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Ten Questions about The Daedalus Incident ---

Author Chuck Wendig asked Michael J. Martinez 10 Questions --- and so, I'm sharing them with the group, since we'll be discussing The Daedalus Incident later this month.   Click on this link to read the whole thing, but here's an excerpt:

HOW IS THIS A STORY ONLY YOU COULD’VE WRITTEN?

In a lot of ways, The Daedalus Incident is the distillation of pretty much everything I love about genre fiction and pop culture. There’s hard science-fiction and a great deal of swashbuckling adventure, with a little bit of magic in the form of alchemy. It’s cerebral and emotional at the same time. Also, I simply like stories that hearken back to a time when heroes weren’t horribly flawed criminals bent on vengeance, or lost souls haunted by death and demons. I wanted a story where everyday people could rise to the occasion when the chips are down, and do so out of a simple sense of right and wrong and duty. In the quest to create ever-more complex scenarios and wild settings, I think genre fiction can occasionally forget about those ordinary people. I wanted to bring that back. And having told other people’s real-life stories for 20 years, I figured I was somewhat qualified to tell this one. Again with the hubris.

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