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...Nye says the form allowed for a different mode of exploration of politics. “I felt I could capture another dimension of power through fiction,” he says. “Academic writing tends to generalize, while fiction tries to particularize. It tries to use one image to illuminate the larger truth...
...move to fiction, though drastic, seemed natural to Nye. “It’s always fun to tell a story, and it also allowed me to use the other side of the brain,” he says. “Sometimes I would work on an academic book during the day and turn to fiction in the evening for relaxation...
...Perhaps Nye was aided by his intimate familiarity with the book’s material. While he stops short of declaring that the protagonist is directly based on himself, he did say that Peter Cutler grew out of experience he had at the State and Defense Departments and in the intelligence community...
...Nye had previously stated that the idea came from a memo he had written for the Secretary of State concerning the ethics of a preemptive strike against a nascent nuclear program. The moral problem continued to fascinate him until it found an expression in fiction...
...Fiction is an extrapolation of dreams and nightmares,” Nye says. “Some are exaggerated from my own experience, others happened to other people. The nice thing about it is it allows you to explore these dreams more fully...