Im really excited the graphic novel is moving along, I wish there were more updates. But as long as we get it!
Thank you for the watch mate!! Loved your Ratha's Creature novel from start to finish, can't wait to read the exciting graphic novel!! :)
Thanks for the good wishes. Still moving ahead with it, and encouragement helps.
Thank you for the ! I had the pleasure of reading your novel “The People of The Sky” back in the ‘90s, right after graduating from college! Please pardon my fangirIing, but I still can’t believe that an author who wrote such a kickass book, is right here on dA!
I had a lot of fun doing People of the Sky, especially creating the aronans as workable flying creatures. They are somewhat based on the huge dragonflies of the Carboniferous, with six to eight feet wingspans, which show that the insect-type of flight package would work if scaled up. A flying horse would not work because a horse doesn't have the muscle or bone structure to support bird-like wings. Heinlein actually discussed this in his story "Jerry Was a Man",
pointing out that a genetically created Pegasus equipped with wings would be decorative only. So I built the aronans out of insect parts, because insect flight is much more efficient.
The only thing I didn't like about the insect idea was the head, so I modeled it on the elegant head of a sea-horse. And I had fun with the Pai Yinaya's partership with these critters.
That’s why the aronans seemed so believable—I thought their design was based on those giant dragonflies! The prophecy of the Blue Star Kachina...I have to find your novel and re-read it again, I lost my copy between moving from my sister’s, to my friend‘s house. Planet Oneway—so called because people going there don’t come back, for one reason or another...usually from the world’s beguiling beauty. Please let me know if I’m remembering your work correctly.
Yes, you are definitely remembering the book accurately. I also had a lot of fun with Goony Berg, the DC3/C47 that Kesbe rescued from a Greenland glacier. This is also based on true events. In the decades after After WW II, many planes that had been ditched in the Arctic, including C47s, sank into glaciers. The movement of ice carried the aircraft to the front of the glacier, and they emerged relatively undamaged. In some cases they could be gassed up and flown back to home base. DC3's are amazingly tough and resilient. They are my favorite aircraft.