Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.