Tom Merritt

Good story. Amazing universe. Giant robots. What's not to love. I'm really looking forward to this becoming a live action film.

Well, I wrote it, so I'm certainly biased. I like the overriding concept a lot. The breakup of the Soviet Union still fascinated me when I began writing it in 1993. The idea of what would happen if the US suffered a similar fate, I still find very compelling.

I broke the story up into several storylines all told from a different character's point of view. This can be confusing sometimes and I could probably do a better job differentiating the voices, but overall, I liked the way it gave you different windows on the crises.

Some weird parallels have occurred since I first wrote it. I referenced a disaster in New Orleans long before Katrina happened. And now most recently the Lakota have begun a serious push for independence.

So if you're into speculative future type political fiction, I think you;ll get a kick out of it.