Iset The Coming Storm in the future, because I wanted everything that worries us today to feel more urgent – environmental degradation, wars over water or agricultural land or access to the sea, depletion of natural resources, refugees, growing inequality between rich and poor. Originally set in 2048, in homage to George Orwell’s 1984, I soon realised that I needed to bring the action closer – to 2037, less than a generation away.
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