Kevin Grubb asked Eliot Peper:

Hi Eliot, I really enjoyed Bandwidth and Borderless and am looking forward to reading Breach soon. I like that the Analog series takes a nuanced view of economics and business. As a consultant, I find myself nodding along to a lot to the logic supporting the narrative (a nice change of pace from scifi authors who treat business as some sort of monolith!). Where do you get your economic inspiration?

Eliot Peper When I'm not writing novels, I help build technology businesses. I've been an early employee, a founder, and an investor in various startups and spent a few years as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm. Today, I spend the majority of my time on my fiction, but still occasionally help companies as an independent adviser. I've even written some commissioned science-fiction short stories for the executive teams of Fortune 100 companies trying to plan for an uncertain future.

As a novelist, I write about what interests me. That's the north star that guides everything from the characters I write about to the world they live in. The feedback loop between technology and culture has always fascinated me, and that fascination bleeds into my books. My life is the material from which my fiction grows.

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