I look forward to this story for several reasons:
1.I have always liked your writing
2.it is an interesting viewpoint, i.e.a 5 yr old 900 yr old boy.
3.I learn about things I didn't know about i.e. Buddhist practices etc.
4.it somehow brings to mind the first kids SF book I recall reading..The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree
5. other.
Author's response
Heya Tim.
Thank you for your kind thoughts.
And we’ll take them one at a time.
1. Gorsh! I’m blushing.
2. That is actually the hardest part of this particular story. How does one combine the two vastly different aspects of Harry’s personality into one package? He’s five and yet he’s also a thousand years old. He will never actually lose the memories, nor his ability to think like an adult, but here he will also be able to let his ‘inner child’ as it were, out to play.
3. I like throwing things like that into my stories; it makes things more…immediate. Being a member of the Nichiren sect (SGI USA) made doing so particularly easy in this instance. More, as Britain has one of the largest concentrations of Nichiren households it is also appropriate.
4. I’ve never read that particular story, but I grew up reading Heinlein, McCaffery Norton, Niven, Blish, Asimov(DRY!) and Appleton, (which I learned much later was not one individual but a bunch of ghost writers paid to write the Tom Swift series. They were also responsible for the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy’s stories.)
5. Ummmm…thanks again.
Alorkin