Jefferey J. Reese, a resident of the Boston area since 2003, has dipped his toes in many cultures. From growing up on the outskirts of liberal Madison, WI; to attending a small town high school in farm country and detassling corn to earn money to buy an electric guitar; to college in conservative rural Indiana; to frequent vacations in Europe; to listening to extreme conservative and extreme liberal radio shows. He has worked fast-food, been a lifeguard, and for more than twenty years he has been a structural engineer in New England, trained to find and solve problems. He has drawn on the diversity of his experiences to develop the wide-ranging ideologies of the extremist cultures in Puerto Paz. When not engineering or writing, he can be fo ...more

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Jefferey J. Reese I had the initial ideas for the book in late high school, after reading Orwell’s “1984” and Huxley’s “Brave New World”, circa 1992. The idea of the se…moreI had the initial ideas for the book in late high school, after reading Orwell’s “1984” and Huxley’s “Brave New World”, circa 1992. The idea of the semi-utopian country having begun with a virtual reality computer game was definitely influenced by the 1990s computer game “SIM City”. I have computer files from the mid-1990s with outlines of story ideas, made using the now-defunct word processing software “Word Perfect”. The book that really set me on the trajectory I ended up on was a non-fiction political book by Lawrence Chickering called “Beyond Left and Right”. That was where I got the ideas regarding four main schools of political ideologies: Order Conservative, Freedom Conservative (libertarian), Order Liberal, and Freedom Liberal (hippies).(less)

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