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Great sci-fi writers start with what is universal and unchanging – human nature, the laws of physics, Coca Cola – and draw a line from such guide points into the future. I firmly believe that the future will be strange and wonderful, exciting and mind-blowing but also instantly recognisable as human were we to be transported there. Kim Stanley Robinson has been long praised for his ... Read more