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THE STORY OF THE BOOK:
After StarTroopers I wanted to go back a bit and produce a sequel that explained how two of my characters happened to be identical twins, despite being apparently born 660 light years apart. But the story quickly became complex and unwieldy, and in the middle of writing it an awful tragedy occurred in my immediate family. I guess that's when the baby in the story became so important to me, and at the last minute, with Scholastic suggesting I take her out altogether, I found a way to link her neatly to StarTroopers.
But it all became so messy that I abandoned the original purpose of the book, and instead it became a very good prequel to StarTroopers.
It was a terrible time and this book hides a great time of struggle in my life. Perhaps, though, it's not all that hidden, for the story does tend to reflect those times. All the same, it does has some excellent comic sequences.
And I'm still left with the challenge of creating another book to explain that twin thing! And I want to do a sequel to the original StarTroopers, - hopefully using all the main
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