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Tom Swift was a teenager, an inventor, and an adventurer.
With his own hands he had built all the amazing machines promised by the book
cover, and more. To a nine-year-old boy circa 1961, the mish-mash of unlikely
technology and insane risk-taking was irresistible. I had learned to read some
three years earlier, but for the first time I sank deeply and irretrievably
into the world of printed fiction.
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I love sciency fiction, and I never loved it more than when
I was a child. Finally, after something like thirty published books, I am
returning to my roots by writing some “sciency fiction” novels for younger
readers, beginning with The Flinkwater
Factor (to be followed next year by Flinkwater
2: The Forgetting Machine.)
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Dedication for The Flinkwater Factor |
I will be launching TheFlinkwater Factor on Tuesday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m., at the Red BalloonBookshop in St. Paul. This is the only scheduled public event for Flinkwater. I’ll probably read a short chapter. There will be snacks. I will sign books. Please come if you can, and bring kids if you have them. The Flinkwater Factor is intended for readers ages 9-12, but there is plenty there for the inner child in all of us.
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