Dave Burton wrote:Hi Jesikah!
After reading the "about" information of your book and the reviews for your book, I'm really curious!
How did the idea of writing the Biodome Chronicles come about?
What were some of your sources of inspiration?
What kind of research did you do when writing the series?
Hi Dave :)
Great questions!
The Biodome Chronicles is inspired by the Biosphere 2 Project, some of Elon Musk's ideas for the future, and my desire to explore present day's ideology to be organic within a high-tech culture. Also, because I'm love exploring
philosophy and reading social commentary in scifi, I wanted to have a discussion within myself in what it means to "connect" to ourselves, to others, and to the world we live in. At what point is something truly "fantasy?" How is reality defined?
As for research . . . heaps and piles and mountains of
books, blogs, academic articles, as well as interviews I conducted with my "team of experts," which consisted of a psychiatrist, a sociologist, a white hat hacker, a permaculturist, and the man who discovered the psychological trauma known as "Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environment Syndrome" (aka ICE) for NASA. Most of my books were on ecology, Green tech, communes, medieval village life, and the future of technology and society. Fascinating stuff :-)