![]() ![]() There are obviously political messages in there, and different characters have different views. ![]() ![]() "We’ve all been told there’ll be the rise of the machines and now we see something that looks like it fits that narrative."Ĭlarke discussed his writing process, the future of drones and what our next president ought to do on the world stage.ĭid you write this book solely for entertainment value, or was there a message you were hoping to impart? He's still not entirely opposed to their use - and thinks America would be behind them had they been rolled out differently. Still, Clarke's knowledge of drones comes firsthand: As he's detailed in a 2012 Op-Ed as well as in an afterword to his own book, he was involved in drones' early development in the 2000s. He told Salon that he was relieved not to have to employ research assistants: "Fiction you write alone, and if it isn’t entirely accurate - that’s fine!" Since then, he's been a commentator on national security, and now a novelist who's produced a debut thriller about U.S. head of counterterrorism made waves in 2004, after he left the Bush administration, with his book "Against All Enemies," an analysis of failures in the anti-terrorist infrastructure leading up to the events of Sept. After all, with his new book, "Sting of the Drone," he didn't have to rely on research. ![]()
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