eliot peper: What My Secret Agent Grandmother Taught Me

What My Secret Agent Grandmother Taught Me

In my latest column for Medium, I share what I learned from my oma about stories worth dying for:

https://medium.com/s/greatescape/how-stories-help-us-escape-491f24b233c8

Complement with a brief anatomy of story and how to kill a dragon.

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Eliot Peper is a novelist based in Oakland, CA.

He writes speculative thrillers that explore the intersection of technology and culture and is the author of Breach, Borderless, Bandwidth, Cumulus, True Blue, Neon Fever Dream, and the Uncommon Series. He has built technology businesses, designed games, survived dengue fever, pioneered new media formats, translated Virgil's Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. His books have been praised by the New York Times Book Review, Popular Science, Businessweek, TechCrunch, io9, and Ars Technica, and he has been a speaker at places like Google, Comic Con, SXSW, and Future in Review.

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