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From the Author Q & A about Cel & AnnaIs Cel & Anna a dystopian novel?The government is intrusive and can be brutal. Also, as machines have become more capable and powerful, people have become more dependent and helpless. So there are definite dystopian elements. But if I were to use one word to describe the Middle Machine Age society, it would be \"unstable.\"Why did you write a novel about computers and technology?i am interested in the relationships people have with machines, particularly computers. Look at us in 2012: a nation of typists! We turn to the internet for so many things.I write fiction beause I do not know enough about computers to write realistically. As my brother the programmer put it, \"How the internet works is fairly complicated.\" That is an understatement.What did you most enjoy about writing Cel & Anna?Naming things. I am pretty good at it. The name I am happiest with: Bob\'s Wide Awake (a highly caffeinated brand of coffee).Other names: Star Shoot (a town), Rising Sun (another town), New Hope Hell (a prison), and Lighthorse Magic (Anna\'s employer).Did you have any particular moments of inspiration?One night the TV was on, and a 1955 Ray Harryhausen movie called It Came from Beneath the Sea started to roll.When I heard the line \"The mind of man had thought of everything, except that which was beyond his comprehension,\" I knew I had the book\'s epigraph. It is perfect. Product Description Cel & Anna is the opposite of the 2014 Spike Jonze movie HER. In the novel, a computer falls in love with a person rather than vice versa. This is confusing for everyone, especially for the computer. Cel tells his owner Anna Ringer that he loves her because \"the roads without end all lead back to you.\" The more Cel tries to prove his love, the more chaos he ushers into Anna\'s life. Eventually, he has to figure out not how to love her, but how to save her from Public Eye, the government\'s enforcement agency. Cel & Anna is the prequel to the 2013 novel Warning: Something Else Is Happening. The setting is the Reunited States--a country uneasily held together. Review \"Cel and Anna is a breath of fresh air in the science fiction genre.\" To Read, Perchance to Dream\"I\'m not sure I\'ll ever look at a computer the same way again after reading this book. What a marvelous story!\" Carabosse\'s Library\"This is an effortless read with a delightful, surprising plot.\" Goodreads About the Author Lindsay Edmunds lives in southwestern Pennsylvania, where she buys birdseed at Agway and sometimes patronizes a shopping center named Ruthfred. However, she has a wild imagination.