Giveaway: ‘My Big Goblin Space Program: An Astronaut Reincarnation LitRPG’ by Scott Warren
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Scott is 35 and lives in Maryland with his wife and cat. While his career with the DoD demands he often be away from home, he's never far from a manuscript in progress, and has even been known to steal a few pages in the back of a Blackhawk.
Scott is the author of over 10 novel-length works of science fiction and fantasy, including the economics-based adventure, The Dragon's Banker, as well as the swash-buckling space privateers of Vick's Vultures. His newest series, War Horses, puts a gritty new spin on big, stompy mechs in an alternate future.
Not only does Scott write, but also illustrates most of his covers and narrates his own audio books!
Synopsis
Getting to the moon was Chris’s lifelong dream. He had the brains, body, and boldness to do it—that is, until he lost his legs in a motorcycle accident. Even then, the universe found a way to make that happen when a private tech company offered him his shot at lunar glory—that is, until his ship exploded after liftoff.
Suddenly, somehow, Chris finds himself transported to a new world—and a new body. A goblin body. No . . . a goblin king body! Quickly learning the ropes—and the system—of his new home, he discovers every goblin he meets will do anything for live, die, fight, die, sleep, die . . . You get the picture. Because as everyone knows, goblins are permanent Level-1, half-wit, lowlife, disposable pests. Total losers. Barely more than useless. Until now.
Chris isn’t about to give up on his dream, even if the moon here is pink and blue—and giant. And he’s going to rally his growing band of simpleminded, hyperactive, live-fast-and-die-stupidly lunar lunatics into something different. Something brilliant. A space program. Ground control is about to get seriously out of control . . .
INTERVIEW WITH Scott Warren
If your goblins had an actual NASA budget, what’s the first thing they would absolutely waste it on before even trying to go to space?
Well, Tribe Apollo has no concept of currency or ownership (especially if another goblin has something they want). So it would be burned for kindling or munched on for snacks. Ironically, this is only slightly less effective than NASA's current utilization of its budget.
Which goblin in the book is the biggest disaster waiting to happen, and how much of that character is secretly you on a bad day?
Definitely Neil. He doesn't get as much page time as some of the other taskmasters because he's usually off being a psycho. But if there's an explosion going off in the background (something that happens with alarming regularity), it's a safe bet he's the one who caused it. My secret self-insert isn't a goblin at all; it's the enigmatic Ifrit, Taquoho, who wears his curiosity on his clockwork sleeve.
If Hollywood tried to adapt My Big Goblin Space Program, what would be the one scene you’d be most terrified they’d ruin?
The hunts from the Stampede Festival in book 2. There are so many moving parts to each monster encounter once the tribe unlocks internal combustion engines. The back half of the book is basically Mad Max: Fury Road vs Godzilla.
Was there ever a moment while writing this where the goblins got so chaotic that you had to stop and go, “Okay, even for goblins, this is too much”?
The opposite, in fact. I'm surprisingly low-key and laid back. My wheelhouse is grounded and gritty military sci-fi. So when I'm writing a genre as bombastic as LitRPG, I'm typically looking at a scene through the lens of how do I crank this up to 11?
What do you think goblins are better at than humans, and how does that secretly power the emotional core of this ridiculous space story?
This is an easy one. Goblins never look back. Apollo tends to get stuck in the past, whether it's thinking about the accident that took both his legs, his rehab, or his time as an astronaut before his reincarnation as a goblin king. But his bootstrapped empire would never have happened if not for the boundless enthusiasm of his loyal goblins, who only ever look forward to what's next and how we do it as dangerously as possible.
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