He is killed by the pirates during their attempted second seizure of the Aurora, and Matt is heartbroken that he will never have the opportunity to learn what makes him happy. Bruce probably has the saddest ending of any of the characters (well, except for maybe Theodore). I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. Hes polite, occasionally funny, and he ends up being unbelievably brave. I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). But 20,000 feet above the Earth's surface, pursued by those who have hunted the Hyperion since its disappearance, and surrounded by deadly high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions soon find themselves. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). Now, accompanied by heiress Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to recover the ship and its treasures. I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C.
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