Ask the Author: Robert G. Williscroft

“Ask me about the world of "The Starchild Trilogy." Look for short stories linked to "Slingshot." "Daedalus" is about base jumping from the Slingshot Space Launch Loop, 80,000 m above the surface.” Robert G. Williscroft

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Your review of Whispers of the Raging Waters was not helpful to the book. You sound judgmental. Take it down for it is not good to your image. Am I right?

Robert G. Williscroft Mr. Macachor--I gave your book 4 stars and an excellent, almost glowing review. As a reviewer, I see my task as informing a potential reader about a book, its positive and not so positive elements--NOT to help the book. I am a 78-year-old successful author with 18 published books (and more on the way). I have something to offer a writer such as you, and I would encourage you to accept my two slightly critical comments with grace. You are a fine writer with an elegant turn of phrase. But you really do need an English-language editor, and you really do need to learn how to format a flowing ebook. If you were to have "Whispers of the Raging Waters" edited by an English-language editor, and if you were to reformat the ebook to industry standards, I would be happy to look at the book a second time. Just notify me here when you have done this.

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Robert G. Williscroft In my hard science fiction novel, "The Starchild Compact," I created a world inside Saturn's moon Iapetus, a world built by people who arrived in our solar system long ago, and who became the founders of the modern human race. In the novel, Iapetus actually is a derelict starship. I am finishing the sequel now -- "The Iapetus Federation." In this book, the Earth becomes victim to a global Jihad, and much of Earth's population finds its way to Iapetus, Mars, the colonies at L-4 and L-5, other colonies throughout the asteroids, and several moons of Jupiter and Saturn. This is the "world" I would visit, and where I would live, were it actually possible to do so. Robert Heinlein once said through his memorable character Lazarus Long that the best thing about space travel is that it makes it possible to go somewhere else. For me, that would be the world of "The Iapetus Federation."

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Robert G. Williscroft My most current book, "The Iapetus Federation," is still being written. It is a direct continuation of the story in "The Starchild Compact." The idea for this novel came to me while I was examining NASA photos of the Cassini-Huygens September 10, 2007, flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus. I was struck by the equatorial ridge, which is twenty km high and as wide. I also was struck by what appeared to be regular hexagonal sections on the surface paralleling the equator, and that some of these sections appear to have collapsed. I researched Iapetus further, discovering that its density (1.09 gm/cm3) is way too low for a solid moon consisting of rock. Street wisdom is that it consists mostly of ice, but Iapetus appears to be rocky, very rocky. "Could it be hollow?" I thought. "What if it were a derelict starship?"

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