The descriptions of Hälleforsnäs and its industrial history are based upon real places and events, but all characters and many of the incidents related in this novel are an expression of the author’s artistic licence. In order to depict the future of the media industry I have taken inspiration from, among others, a radio interview with Casten Almqvist on the Ekot news programme of 23 August 2014, Jan Scherman’s book Räkna med känslorna (‘Count on Emotion’), Thomas Mattsson’s blog for Expressen.se, and Jan Hellin’s Sunday columns for Aftonbladet.se. The online post attributed to Gregorius and the four comments by his admirers are genuine, and were published anonymously on Swedish internet sites. The post dated 3 June, 16.53, was tried and dismissed in a Swedish court. The comments were all written by people who applied for politically sensitive posts in Sweden. Their identities were made public after a series of revelations by the Expressen newspaper in collaboration with Researchgruppen, a network of freelance journalists.
