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How I wrote In The Mouth Of The Whale- Paul McAuley

Gollancz Team: - January 26th, 2012
Author Post, Paul McAuley, Science Fiction

in the mouth of the whale

In The Mouth of the Whale, like most of my novels, began with an image. In this case a gigantic cylindrical construct hung in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet, with spidery drones working on some machine attached to its skin, and trains rushing up and down a long spine or tail that dropped away into an ocean of clouds.

This mind’s eye picture had grown out of thinking about how to … More

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