We have a special guest on the blog today - author Nathaniel Danes talking about his new book, BattleMaster. The book's release is April 20,
2017: BattleMaster, military science fiction. Book one of The BattleMaster
Corps Trilogy.
Bio:
Nathaniel Danes is a
self-diagnosed sci-fi junkie and, according to his wife, has an over active
imagination. Mostly blind, he writes to create universes where he has no
limitations. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Washington, DC area.
Excerpt:
His eyes shifted toward his own line.
That’s when he saw her, saw the BattleMaster. The twin moons stood at her back,
illuminating her presence with a mystical glow. She was alone on the ridge but
not for long.
Eight machines-of-war, battle-drones,
emerged along her side. Half were small tracked vehicles with twin
fifty-calibers and rocket launchers on a turret. The rest looked like six-legged
spiders with a ball-shaped laser cannon and mortar tube on top.
She flung her arms forward and her minions
erupted.
Check out what he has to say about his inspriation for this book!
Seeds of Imagination
I
can't speak for any author other than myself but I find the world ripe with
seemingly insignificant scraps of information begging to be nurtured, grown
into a story. I look at my ordinary life with the goal of finding hidden
adventure.
I'm
low vision, functionally blind in most situations. As you can guess, my
degrading retinas restrict what I can do in the real world. I love skiing,
scuba diving, and a host of other activities I can no longer do, or do how I
want to do them. This fighting retreat has been the story of my life since
being medically discharge from the Army at the old age of seventeen, following
my diagnosis.
Simply
put, I can't live the life I want to so my imagination has become my keep. My
final impenetrable stronghold, impervious to the ravages of my affliction. I
can go anywhere and do anything. It's an escape I utilize regularly.
Maybe
it's just me because my mind is so desperate for new material to chew on but
I'll grad ahold of a minor piece of information and build an entire universe around
it. That's how my latest novel, BattleMaster was born.
Several
years ago I saw a short segment on TV about the US Air Force's experiments with
craft controlled by a pilot's brainwaves. The pilots were hooked up to
simulators but the results were still very interesting. A female subject
remarked that initial findings suggested women were better at this method of
operation.
The
seed had been planted.
That
fact whispered in my ear for years and I combined it with others I picked up.
Such as, knowledge the female brain is wired to maximize multitasking while
males are superior at focusing on a single objective. Both have their
advantages and are likely a result of survival demands Datong back millennia.
Men hunting and providing protection while woman cared for the young and
performed any number of important tasks.
These
two bits of information are what formed the roots of BattleMaster. I asked
myself, if women are better at multitasking and the future of warfare is drone
based, wouldn't they one day reign supreme on the battlefield? My imagination
went from there and the story blossomed until it found its way to the
page.
So,
pay attention to the world around you. Seeds of imagination are adrift
everywhere.
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https://twitter.com/nathanieldanes
Website:
www.nathanieldanesauthor.com
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