Rich
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Peter Cawdron:
Was very pleasantly surprised to see you wrote a sequel to the Hugh Howey's Silo series. How did this come to pass? Is he done with the series? Quick addendum, I have very much enjoyed your first contact series, and appreciate that you try to incorporate evolving science in your narratives. Thanks
Peter Cawdron
Hi Rich. Back in 2013, Amazon launched a program called Kindle Worlds which allowed for fan fiction to be formalized and sold (with a percentage of profit going to the original copyright holder). I wrote Children's Crusade in Kurt Vonnegut's kindle world (which can now be found in my Hello World anthology) and Shadows in Hugh's world of Wool/Silos. Some readers look down on fan fiction, but I've always loved writing tribute pieces to stories that inspired me. My novella The Curious Case of the Hounds of Hell is a Sherlock Holmes story, while Mister Fluffy Bunny is a homage to Louis Sachar's Holes. Even full-length novels of mine, like Cold Eyes, is a homage to a 1974 classic—The Mote in God's Eye. I'm careful to avoid parroting or copying concepts, instead developing original ideas inspired by those works. Hugh completed three novels in the Silo universe (Shift, Wool & Dust) and is currently developing Wool into a series with Apple TV (launching later this year). He's also adapting his novel on Beacon 23 for TV (with Lena Headly of Game of Thrones as the lead actress) and his novel Sand is also in production, so keep your eyes peeled as there are a lot of Hugh's stories coming our way on various streaming services in the next 18 months! Thanks for supporting independent science fiction. Cheers, Peter
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Petr
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Peter Cawdron:
Is there a particular reason why so many of your books are first contact stories?
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