Eliot Peper is the author of Cumulus, True Blue, Neon Fever Dream, and The Uncommon Series. His near-future thrillers have been praised by The Verge, Popular Science, Businessweek, io9, and Ars Technica. Eliot is an editor at Scout and an adviser to entrepreneurs and investors. He has helped build various technology businesses, survived dengue fever, 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 writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and the Chicago Review of Books; and he has been a speaker at places such as Google, Qualcomm, Future in Review, and the Conference on World Affairs. Visit www.eliotpeper.com to get personal reading recommendations from Eliot and learn more about him. He is also active on social media at twitter.com/eliotpeper and facebook.com/eliotpeper.