Veronica Roth is the author of the bestselling Divergent novels, which have been adapted into a sequence of popular films. Her new novel Poster Girl tells the story of Sonya Kantor, a younger girl elevated in an authoritarian modern society in in the vicinity of-upcoming Seattle.

“I desired her to be not a typical hero determine, but to be a person who’s complicit in the authoritarian routine that fell, and battling with how she understands that, and how she’s been manipulated by this procedure,” Roth suggests in Episode 528 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Poster Woman imagines the best surveillance point out, in which just about every motion is recorded and judged by ubiquitous ocular implants. Roth suggests it was all also quick for her to consider how Sonya may possibly appreciate getting regularly monitored and rewarded for her good behavior. “I was absolutely just one of people students who liked to be rewarded in college, and I was normally fantastic at exams, and I was generally nicely-behaved,” she suggests. “It’s attractive to know that you are carrying out the correct matter, and you’re performing anything that you are meant to be performing, to a sure style of temperament.”

The guide was also motivated by Roth’s frequent outings to visit her husband’s family in Romania, a country that was dominated by the communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu until finally 1989. “Even now, if you go to the Xmas Current market in Romania, they provide small magnets with Ceaușescu’s