Pump Up Your Book Chats with Natsuya Uesugi, author of grydscaen

 

grydscaen Title: grydscaen

Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy

Author: Natsuya Uesugi

Publisher: Xlibris

EBook: 288 pages

Release Date: July 21, 2011

Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the first volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and is sent on a mission to kidnap Faid. Riuho, Lino’s half brother becomes a prisoner of the Elite military and they experiment on him, train him and subject him to mind control, then send him out on a mission. On his return, Riuho is set on escaping and recruits Faid who hacks into the Psi Faction systems. They escape and return to the Packrats leading up to the start of grydscaen:retribution.

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Can you tell us why you wrote your book?

I wrote the grydscaen series because I wanted to send a message and to provide positive role models for LGBT youth and youth in general. This book has technology at the core and is science fiction but it is a microcosm of the real world. I wanted to show that LGBT characters like the main character Lino Dejarre can be just as successful as straight characters.

Which part of the book was hardest to write?

The novel grydscaen: beginnings is the prologue to volume 1 entitled grydscaen:retribution. Retribution starts off where beginnings ends. Beginnings was written after retribution so when I wrote beginnings I knew where it had to end so I had to write to that point and contain the story from its start to where retribution will start. I think it was a little harder because I knew where the end was before I started writing beginnings and I had to make sure to get to that point so that retribution could start without a hiccup.

Does your book have an underlying message that readers should know?

The grydscaen series as a few messages which are LGBT equality and equal rights, ending bullying, ending the stigma of mental illness, and brining to light the plight of LGBT homeless youth. All these messages are wound into the grydscaen story because I wanted to provide role models for youth. If I can touch one person with the message and give them hope and make a bullied gay or trans teen see that they are not alone then I will have done my job.

Do you remember when the writing bug hit?

I think I was 5 when I entered my first writing competition and won an award. I have been writing ever since. I really started writing seriously in college where I went to an Ivy League school. Writing centered me and let me get to know myself better.

Besides books do you write anything else?

I write graphic novels and I just finished writing a graphic novel for the grydscaen short story “A Storm’s Coming” which is about the homeless 16 year old gay youth Rom who used to be a hacker and the government caught him and erased his memory then threw him out on the streets. I have also written some screen plays but mostly besides the graphic novels I write books. I also write the grydscaen blog everyday and Packrat Underground which is about Rom.


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