This Writing Life

Some authors spend their careers skipping from one theme to another. Others, like Richard Evans, concentrate on one. His first novel, called Machine Nation, was published in 2002, and imagined a near future in which the philosophical questions surrounding robotic life are beginning to press. In subsequent robot books – Robophobia and Exilium – he [...]

Remember when, as a child, you’d suddenly see things from a new perspective? I must have been about nine, or perhaps eight, when it struck me that there were people in the world who had not heard of James Bond. That thought held me in a tighter grip than the notion that some people had [...]