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Post-apocalyptic Harry still writing
Rounding off a trilogy of post-apocalyptic science fiction novels, Weymouth based author Harry Walton has published his new book Sky Master
Inspired by authors such as Hugh Howey, David Gemmell and Raymond E Feist, Harry’s novel explores a bleak South West in the near future after a devastating plague has wiped out more than 99 per cent of the population. The survivors that are left have to deal with threats caused by dwindling resources, dangerous, escaped zoo animals and each other.
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A journalist for more then 40 years, Harry said he began writing the first book in the series, The Rusting Shires, while he was a “bit bored” at home during Christmas 2019.
“The biggest way that covid affected me was I got on with writing this book,” Harry said. “It was that period between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day and I thought to myself, ‘I’ve been thinking about writing a book for over 20 years now, what if I just sit down and put a few thoughts into a document?’
“I knew what I wanted to write but I never sat down and put it all together. I wrote one page of initial ideas, which turned into three pages quickly and it all grew from there. It’s fatal to just sit down and start writing, you need bit of a framework so don’t get ahead of yourself.”
Harry, 68, says he still has another eight or so books he wishes to write including a trilogy about an archaeologist with a shady past working in Egypt and another book about aliens visiting Earth to give humanity a warning. “Some of these books will take longer to write than others,” Harry added. “I will have to do a lot of research for the book set in Egypt but that will mean I’m jumping back and forth between modern day and Egypt several thousand years ago.”
When he’s not slogging away at a keyboard in his home, Harry volunteers at the Nothe Fort as an archivist. He is currently cataloguing reports about troop movements and naval and aerial engagements in and around the Weymouth area during the Second World War Two. Harry’s books are available in paperback and ebook format on Amazon.
