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Hi, I’m Lee Schneider, producer, novelist, Storyline Sessions facilitator and member of the faculty at the USC School of Architecture. I’m the author of the Utopia Engine Trilogy, which includes the novels SURRENDER, RESIST, and the forthcoming LIBERATION, and writer/director of the audio dramas Privacy Pod, Mission of the Lunar Sparrow, and Your Performance Review.

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Lee