Goodreads asked Francesca Armour-Chelu:

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

Francesca Armour-Chelu I'd read about the Moken people who live off the Thai coast and islands- the original so called 'Sea Gypsies'. I found the idea of living like that really interesting; what problems would you face, how would you adapt, what about food and fresh water? Fenn Halflin and the Fearzero was a very different story to start with, but in 2009 there were several terrible migrant-ship disasters in the Mediterranean. After that the story changed and I decided to set Fenn's quest against a backdrop of an aggressive land-grab after disastrous climate change.

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