Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.