It may come as a shock, but I don’t have a firm stance one way or another. And that’s how I wanted Thomas to come across in the book. It is definitely a hot-button issue for some people, on both sides of the equation, but I wanted Thomas to have more of a problem with the institution (Lunhill) than the science (biotechnology).
Which is how I feel.
Sure, Monsanto and friends have done some really shady things, but to blame biotechnology and GMOs as a whole just doesn’t seem fair.
While doing research for this book, I was inundated with books, studies, blog posts, news articles, left-wing rhetoric, right-wing rhetoric, a shit storm really of the good, the bad, and the ugly when it came to Big Biotech.
After sorting through it all, I could only chose a limited amount of this material to bring into the book. I didn’t want to overwhelm the reader with science and I could only have so many plot points. In an attempt not to alienate anyone, one way or another, I wanted to showcase the bad, but also the good. That being said, I did cast Lunhill as the villain, so I did have to lean more toward the bad.
This was a tough book to write. I hadn’t written a full-length novel in close to five years and I forgot how big the scope of the project was. Now, at the finish line, it seems almost impossible that this seed of an idea I had a year earlier (between visits to the bathroom) has come full circle and is now a book.
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About the Author
Nick Pirog is the bestselling author of the Thomas Prescott series, the 3:00 a.m. series, and The Speed of Souls. He lives in South Lake Tahoe with his two pups, Potter and Penny.
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Also by Nick Pirog
The Henry Bins Series
3:00 a.m.
3:10 a.m.
3:21 a.m
3:34 a.m.
3:46 a.m.
The Thomas Prescott Series
Unforeseen
Gray Matter
The Afrikaans
Show Me
Jungle Up (April 2021)
Other Books
The Speed of Souls: A Novel for Dog Lovers
Arrival (The Maddy Young Saga)
The Lassie Files: Four Ridiculously Silly Stories
