A Train to the Unknown
Samer ·
How a night train journey became the opening scene of my next science fiction novel.
Some ideas arrive at a desk. This one arrived at two in the morning on a night train, when the carriage lights went out and the window became a mirror.
The question
What if a train kept running after its last station, and the passengers had to decide whether to get off?
From notebook to novel
- I wrote the first page before the lights came back on.
- Back home, the passengers became six strangers, each running from something.
- The train became a ship crossing the gap between two worlds, the setting of the sequel to 2084: Sanctuary.
Coming next
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