Goodreads asked Leonora Meriel:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Leonora Meriel My most recent book is "The Unity Game" which is set in New York City, on a distant planet and in an after-life dimension. I used to live in Manhattan, and had wanted to write about it for several years. However I wanted to use it to combine with other perspectives on humanity, as it is such a vivid example of a particular way of living on the planet Earth. This is where I got the idea of combining it with life on another planet, and then life in another dimension. New York is very much about fulfilling the ego, and thus my alien character does not experience ego at all, and the after-life characters perceive humanity from a non-judgemental viewpoint. The three settings and story lines allowed me to explore some big themes that had been mulling for several years.

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