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Eliot Peper is the author of eleven novels, including, most recently, Foundry.

He's helped build technology businesses, survived dengue fever, translated Virgil's Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang.

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I've really enjoyed your books so far, and I'm really looking forward to your future work. One aspect I really loved was the idea of the "feed-less bar" where they go to meet and hang out without the constant interruption of the electronic/network interruptions and surveillance. Curious where that idea came from. Also, what do you see gives you hope about the state of technology and its place in the world?

Eliot Peper The idea for Analog emerged from a late-night conversation among friends. We were sharing a bottle of wine and imagining how wonderful it would be to …moreThe idea for Analog emerged from a late-night conversation among friends. We were sharing a bottle of wine and imagining how wonderful it would be to have an off-grid social club where interactions weren't mediated or interrupted by the digital world—an institution that would have particular relevance in the technology-obsessed San Francisco Bay Area, where I happen to live.

None of us got our acts sufficiently together to build the real thing, so I fleshed it out in fiction. In doing so, I realized how useful Analog could be as a literary device: by stripping the feed away from the characters, it illustrates the role it plays in their lives.

People give me hope. Every time someone reacts with patience when a situation might call for anger, every time someone chooses generosity, every time someone takes the long view, these decisions to be better by doing better inspire me to open my heart to the world. Technology is a powerful tool that can be used for good or ill—we've raised billions out of poverty and saved countless lives from preventable disease and we've invented horrific weapons and autocratic panopticons—so ultimately how we choose to use technology will determine the shape of the future we pass down to our children and grandchildren.(less)

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Eliot, enjoyed Bandwidth very much (Amazon Firsts selection). Looking forward to checking out your other work. Is the NW backdrop based on research or are you located there now? (Lifelong Seattleite, now living in Hawaii). Any particular order recommended based on my enjoying Bandwidth, machine learning, NW?

Eliot Peper Thanks Bob, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed Bandwidth.

My mum's from British Columbia and I've spent quite a bit of time in the NW, hence it's prominence…moreThanks Bob, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed Bandwidth.

My mum's from British Columbia and I've spent quite a bit of time in the NW, hence it's prominence in the novel.

After Bandwidth, I'd recommend reading Borderless->Breach->Cumulus->Neon Fever Dream->The Uncommon Series.

Cheers, Eliot(less)

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	Bandwidth (Analog #1) 3.61 avg rating — 4,458 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 (The Uncommon Series, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.”
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“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”
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“Like memory, history was synthetic. Humans thought of both as factual records, but study after study confirmed that they were more like dreams, narratives constructed and reconstructed by the mind to fit the demands of the present, not the reality of the past.”
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