Erik Martin Willén discusses his NASTRAGULL
series
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This is a story
that I've kept coming back to since I was very young. Back
then, a friend and I decided to create a cartoon. He was a
great artist and could draw anything—and I was a bit crazy with
my creative imagination. We decided I would come up with the
story and he would handle the drawings. Boy, what a team we
were! We produced a couple of pages, and then we got bored and
went outside to play.
Through the years, I made notes on the topic...many notes.
Several times I attempted to write a book based on those notes,
but didn't have the patience to complete it; after a few pages,
I simply stopped. Years went by, and from time to time,
whenever I faced difficulties in my life, I made more notes.
Eventually I wrote the outline for the saga and turned it into
several screenplays: Dawn Sets in Hell, Twenty-First,
Nastragull, etc.
The turning point in my life, the one that made me an author,
was when my younger sister Sofia was diagnosed with Lupus
SLE—and died shortly thereafter at the young age of 24 in
Edinburgh, Scotland. Sofia's death came as an incredible shock.
It hit my family and me very hard, and made me revaluate my
life. During my grief I started to write, and I wrote and
wrote, and I held back nothing. Finally, I had found my
author's voice, and the result is the saga called NASTRAGULL.
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The story is
original and very different. Five books have been th written in
this series and I have planned for ten. Currently I’m working
on part six and seven. There will also be a spinoff; The
Vixens.
The story combines the non-stop high-tech adventure of Star
Wars with the awe-inspiring, complex cultural backdrop of
Dune—with quite a bit of Quentin Tarantino thrown in for good
measure. This action-packed novel includes elements of military
SF, traditional space opera, dystopian SF, and the sociological
explorations of writers such as Ray Bradbury and Ursula K.
LeGuin. At heart, though, it's a love story—the tale of two
literally star-crossed lovers, and their Herculean efforts to
move Heaven and Earth (sometimes literally) to find each other
again and again as circumstances rip them apart.
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“After the
Swedish detective miracle, can we now, thanks to Willén,
Swedish literature might be looking forward to a science
fiction wonder?”
Johan Holst, The Culture Magazine - Tidningen Kulturen, Aug,
06-2013
“Finally, something new in a genre of repeats”
“a gripping, entertaining read…not for the faint-hearted…”
“The most intense and new space opera ever!”
For more details
about books by Erik Martin Willén visit erikmartinwillen.com or follow @ErikMartinWilln on Twitter, @erikmartinwillen on Instagram and on Goodreads.
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Source: NastraGull
by Erik Martin Willén (jcgemmell.com)
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