Goodreads asked R.C. Dilan:

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

R.C. Dilan The idea for my first book actually had a little bit of a strange beginning. I was on the train, listening to this techno song that sampled JFK`s Ich Bin Berliner speech; I was just starring forward when the line, "I`d rather die young, trying to improve things, then to die old and broken with a lifetime of regret." I didn`t really know what it meant, or why I was thinking about it, but it was soon accompanied with an image of a divided Berlin and the sound of JFK`s speech drifting over the wall to a group of men struggling to stay alive. This turned into an idea for a historical fiction book about an attempted revolution in Germany at that time, and then the idea evolved into the book I actually wrote about a revolution taking place in a future dystopian society.

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