“I didn’t realize…”
“But you can learn, Mr. Lyttle. You will learn.” Hank drew his son in on the other side. “You’ve learned to be a hero. Grant knows all the things you must know to protect Lyttleton. From you, Grant will learn how to protect Lyttleton. And those things, gentlemen, are what you truly need to know if you really are to succeed.”
About the Author
Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning editor, game designer, computer game designer, podcaster, graphic novelist, novelist, and screenwriter who is best known for his contributions to Star Wars™ fiction, including I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron. He’s been in the gaming industry long enough to have outlived most of his enemies, and to have plotted the demise of the others. He lives in Arizona. In his spare time he enjoys dancing, playing computer games, and endless hours of plotting to take over the world.
About This Story
Need To Know is the first of a set of prequel stories set in his In Hero Years… I’m Dead universe. This set of stories, which he’s loosely tagged as In Hero Years Beginnings chronicle the early days of heroes like Graviton and Nighthaunt. Field Trip, which is in the Origins 2013 anthology HEROES!, is a direct sequel to this story.
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