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Did you have any access to Musk and/or family/friends or is it mainly compiled from already available sources? Either way, it looks like a good read.

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No I haven't. I have cleaned Internet and books on information, so it has 407 sources.

Did you attempt reaching them?

You should at least ask. Maybe you are destined to be a modern day Napoleon Hill?

The only question I have unanswered is what the name of the game was that Elon Musk sold when he was 12. I had to include Blastar, Blast Star, and Blaster. I tried to ask that question on Twitter, but it got lost in the spam...

@alanctgardner2 I meant questions that will improve the material I have. You can always ask more questions, but I didn't want the book to be too long either. Well, I wrote it because he's an engineer and it's hard to find engineers that are role models, and I wrote it because he cares about peak oil and not so many others do.

I find it hard to believe that, having looked at someone's entire life you can't think of anything to ask them if you met face-to-face. It kind of makes me worried that the book might be a bit superficial: you can have lots of facts about what he's done, but very little critical commentary or insight into his thought process, emotions, etc. What is it about Musk that made you want to write a whole book about him?

There's a clip on YouTube ;) It has a title screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqrqU_wTPAw

That's another game released in 1993 by Core Design. Elon's game was released in 1983. I've written in the biography that the two games shouldn't be confused.

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