Interview with Winston Galt, Author of UTOPYC

What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write UTOPYC?

See that the world we live in is dominated by evil, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein reveals that the worst evil power is political power, which controls force, education, and money. We are so accustomed to accepting the power of this evil that we believe there is no alternative. Utopyc is the formulation of the only possible alternative: the abolition of politics and political power. It shows how life can be organized without evil, based on the value of people and their respect for others.

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of UTOPYC, what would they be?

Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd.

What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

My favorite genres to read are science fiction, utopias and dystopias, American noir novels, and political thrillers.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

The scene in my book that I most enjoyed writing was, without a doubt, the interview the journalist conducts with the president of Utopyc, in which the latter shows the journalist that the supposedly democratic world we live in is, in reality, a Marxist one, not truly democratic. The Museum of Liberty and the Museum of Beauty were also a pleasure to write. I have a special fondness for the scene in which a chauffeur laments that his father has been deceived by the State his entire life and has never been able to rise above poverty due to the deceptive state education that convinces us to be slaves of the State, so that we accept it without criticism.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

I don’t have any kind of habit of this kind. I just try to be as professional as possible and write compulsively until I finish the story I’m involved in.

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

“I will not ask anyone to sacrifice themselves for me, but I will not sacrifice myself for anyone except by free and voluntary decision.” It’s by Ayn Rand, and I believe it should be the starting point for opposing educational policies that convince us to accept slavery to the State.

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

That a free life, without state coercion, will bring about the birth of a new Humanism, the likes of which human history has never known before.

Winston Galt is the author of the new book UTOPYC

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