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MEET THE AUTHOR<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Gazzetta<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nathan\u2019s career in foreign assistance and diplomacy includes management of lifesaving health and humanitarian assistance in Africa; democracy, human rights and governance programming in the Middle East; communications infrastructure development in Afghanistan; and refugee resettlement operations in the United States.  Regrettably, he has never been to space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan is an amateur competitive cyclist who doesn\u2019t win many races but has a lot of fun trying.  He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his lovely wife and two sons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nathan\u2019s forthcoming novel, Starforge<\/em>, is a sci-fi thriller set in the near future which untangles the mystery of two astronauts who disappear from an asteroid mining station. Nathan is represented by Gabrielle Harbowy at Corvisiero Literary Agency<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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questions and answers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Q: How did you come up with the idea for <\/strong>Starforge<\/em><\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: I read a great non-fiction book, Bryan Burrough\u2019s Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir<\/em>, about U.S. \u2014 Russian cooperation in space in the 1990s.  The book gave a brief history of the Soviet space program which isn\u2019t well known because it was kept secret for a long time.  One episode the book relates is the story of Salyut 7, a Soviet space station in the 1980s which had to be abandoned by its crew because of electrical problems.  The station, empty and completely inoperable, continued to orbit Earth for a couple of years before a new crew launched to dock with the station and repair it.  The mission was a success and is considered one of the most impressive in-flight repairs ever.  I found the story fascinating and my imagination ran off on a tangent.  I imagined an empty space station orbiting Earth.  Why is it empty?  What happened?  Where did the crew go? Those are the questions that inspired Starforge<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What are some of your favorite books?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Tim O\u2019Brien\u2019s The Things They Carried<\/em> is the book that made me want to be a writer.  I love the interplay between short-stories and long-form fiction, and between a straightforward account of events and a wilful distortion of the facts.  You come away from it feeling like you know exactly what happened and, at the same time, like it doesn\u2019t make any sense.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s Poisonwood Bible<\/em> for the way the characters\u2019 voices are so well developed.  Each chapter is told from a different perspective, and though she included the name of the narrator in each chapter heading, it\u2019s redundant.  The voices are so distinct you only need to read the first few lines to know whose point of view you’re in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I admire all of Charles Frazier\u2019s books, but particularly Thirteen Moons, <\/em>for the immersive environment he creates.  He has researched every detail of the times and places of his stories and it seeps through on every page.  Subtle details bring the setting to life in exactly the way historical fiction is supposed to.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Hang on, none of those are sci-fi.  How did you end up writing <\/strong>
a sci-fi book?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: Sci-fi is fun because it can speak to real world issues in a really creative way.  I\u2019m thinking of Daniel Suarez\u2019s Daemon<\/em> which starts with the social implications of emerging technologies and lets the author\u2019s imagination run with them.  Or Joe Haldeman\u2019s The Forever War<\/em> which alludes to some of the author\u2019s experiences in the Vietnam War without the same constraints of a more representational account.  Or another one of my favorites, Liu Cixin\u2019s Remembrance of Earth\u2019s Past<\/em> trilogy, which takes a critical look at how civilizations rise, evolve, and compete for survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Does <\/strong>Starforge <\/em><\/strong>speak to a larger issue like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: I’ll let readers decide.
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