Eragon's best-selling author Christopher Paolini discusses writing a more mature novel with Murtagh and returning to the Inheritance Cycle's world.
The Big Picture A little over twenty years ago, a bright-eyed and twenty-year-old Christopher Paolini published his debut novel Eragon—the first book in what would become the beloved and critically acclaimed fantasy series The Inheritance Cycle. The series, which he began penning at the age of fifteen, would eventually earn him the Guinness Book of World Records title of the youngest author of a bestselling book series ever.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI: I understand that because when I was growing up and was being homeschooled, my parents were always looking for examples of homeschooled kids who had “done good,” so they could point to them and say, “See? See? You can do it. It's possible.” I think it was also that they were reassuring themselves that if they homeschooled their kids, the kids would do okay in life.
PAOLINI: Well, it evolved. I've always had ideas for more full-size books set in the world of Eragon, and a book about Murtagh was one of those. I had a couple of general ideas that I wanted to play with, such as Murtagh and Thorn grappling with their past, grappling with other threats and developments in the world.
Do you think there is more to explore in this world? The ending of this gave me a feeling like maybe…PAOLINI: As well as telling this particular story. PAOLINI: So there's an old saying that sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you finish writing it or release the first draft, and that was definitely the case here. I had a couple of themes, one specific theme, in mind throughout the first draft, and then when my editor read it, she said, “You know, it seems like a large part of the book is actually about Y, not X.” At first, I went, “No, no, no, no.
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