<p>Eric Goldman grew up in South Africa under apartheid and emigrated to Canada in 1978. He has launched and grown seven software-related startups and now writes full-time. His fiction circles one question: why, when we understand the stakes so clearly, do we keep failing to change our course?</p><p>His first novel, Humanity's Wake, is a nautical thriller drawn from his experience as a sailor. The Kingdom of America is his second novel.</p>
