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I have the advantage now of not having to imagine the 21st century because we’re actually living in it. We are living in a 21st century that no Science Fiction publisher would have allowed me to depict in 1985. If I had gone in and said: ‘I have got a great idea for a Science Fiction novel, it’s a world where human technology has upset the global climate, and it’s getting warmer and people are starting to feel that, and the polar bears are dying’, they’d say: ‘Wow, that’s cool’, and I’d say: ‘And there is this sexually transmitted auto-immune disease.’ They’d say: ‘Well, okay.’ Then I’d say: ‘And terrorists from the Middle East have hijacked airliners and flown them into the tallest building in Manhattan, and then America invades the wrong country!’ Not only would they not give me a contract, but they would probably call security. So, for someone writing - whatever it is that I’m writing these days - the world just provides.