These are just a few of the cultural influences that inspired me in the writing of The Blue Diviners.

• The movie Stalker
• The movie The Iron Giant
• The movie Akira
• Patlabor
• The artist Takashi Murakami
• The writer Haruki Murakami
• J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Dante’s Inferno
• The New Yorker article Resurrecting Alexandria
• NaNoWriMo
• Final Fantasy VII / Playstation 2
• This insane Gunpla Custom – Wing Zero X Sephiroth Final Fantasy 7