Read more about what inspired author James Dashner to write his new book, The Eye of Minds, book one of The Mortality Doctrine.
It’s easy for me to pinpoint the very first glimmer of inspiration I had for The Eye of Minds. I love movies, and there are two movies that easily fall into my Top Ten Movies of All Time list, which is more of a concept than an actual list. (I think it currently has about 20 movies on it and it isn’t written down anywhere other than in my mind.) Those two movies are Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan, and The Matrix, directed by the Wachowskis. These are what I call “event” movies—films that blew me away and stayed with me, still to this day. Some of the concepts presented in those films stuck in my mind, and definitely inspired my thought process as I came up with the story for The Eye of Minds.
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