I’m Christoffer Vuolo Junros, a Swedish author and development engineer. My life tends to move between two worlds: engineering things that exist and writing about worlds that don’t. By day, I work on the development of electric trucks and buses, combining engineering, problem-solving, and a fascination with complex systems. Outside of engineering, I write science fiction and speculative stories about people caught inside systems far larger than themselves. I believe deeply in human rights, equality, and the equal value of every human life. Those beliefs inevitably shape my writing. My stories often reflect humanity’s struggles with power, oppression, injustice, prejudice, technology, colonialism, and the structures we create to control one another. Science fiction gives me a way to move those struggles somewhere else—to another city, another planet, another century—and then look back at ourselves from a different angle. Sometimes the technology changes. Humanity rarely does. I’m the author of the Origin Andromeda science-fiction series, the writing guide WRITE: The Essential Mini-Guide to Books and Storytelling, and now The Delay, my stand-alone science-fiction noir. When I’m not writing or engineering, I’m usually travelling, working on some new project, building something unnecessarily complicated, or already thinking about the next story.