Goodreads asked Dylan Evans:

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

Dylan Evans The Utopia Experiment was always meant to end with a book. So when I left the experiment in September 2007, I started writing about tumultuous events of the previous year, which I had spent with a bunch of volunteers in the Scottish Highlands, trying to simulate life after the collapse of civilization. I wanted to make some sense of what had happened, and organize the various notes I had into some kind of vaguely coherent narrative. But it was hard. Every time I tried to recall the passage of events, I would wince at the painful memories, and I only managed about ten thousand words before I finally gave up and put the whole thing to one side. It wasn't until Spring 2013, almost six years later, that I finally felt ready to write the book.

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