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Who is Jacques Mc Keown
- All we know about this anonymous writer is that McKeown had probably met him, does not need/want money, and is not Henderson.
- My money is on Jemima. She is very quick-witted, able to correctly evaluate most situations that arise. She is knowledgeable about space, immediately recognizing that Daniel's ship is a huge pirate bait. Jemima is utterly bored with Earth, possibly leading to fascination with pilots. As a daughter of a career politician in a police state, she might have illicit access to a lot of information about pilots that she could use for the books. And finally, due to her age and family connections, she is not in an immediate need of money. True, the above is rather a stretch, but no one else seems to fit the bill better.
- It wouldn't explain how she'd know all of the different stories, including not-McKeown's, without actually meeting any of them, nor would it explain how Blaze didn't know who she was but knew not-McKeown was not McKeown. She also hadn't really seen space and being a young author does stretch plausibility.
- I'd guess it's Frobisher the laundromat owner from the beginning. He's an ex-spacer that isn't a competitor for tourism, so he's everybody's confidant and knows all of their stories. He's not rich, but he's comfortable by spacer standards due to turning his eye to alternative revenue sources. He'd also be the first one to realize how absolutely screwed the author would be if their identity were ever revealed.
- Another possibility is the narrator's semi-estranged father, who was a pilot from back before the Golden Age and is noted to be retired but with significant nostalgia for the old days. Enough to still maintain a ship as a hobby anyway.
- Notably, Warden said she's "fairly certain" the protagonist had met McKeown, but her exact words leave room for doubt, implying that while she has good reason to think the two had met, she could not have seen the two in the same scene, otherwise she would know for sure that the two had indeed met. Unless this is a deliberate red herring, I believe this rules out Jemina, leaves Frobisher in consideration and makes the narrator's father more likely.
- Frobisher leaking the email where he explicitly says he's not the real McKeown in the sequel just in time to screw with him and right before the next book calls him out seems like a bit of a heavy hint.
- Another possibility is Honda, who has a hatred for star pilots and may be attempting to discredit them and so wouldn't be doing it for the money, which explains why it went unclaimed. He does seem certain that our protagonist isn't actually Mc Keown.
- My money is on Jemima. She is very quick-witted, able to correctly evaluate most situations that arise. She is knowledgeable about space, immediately recognizing that Daniel's ship is a huge pirate bait. Jemima is utterly bored with Earth, possibly leading to fascination with pilots. As a daughter of a career politician in a police state, she might have illicit access to a lot of information about pilots that she could use for the books. And finally, due to her age and family connections, she is not in an immediate need of money. True, the above is rather a stretch, but no one else seems to fit the bill better.
