Toward Ecosophy

I finished doing the page proofs for the last four of my soon-to-be-reprinted novels today, with Retrotopia the final manuscript of the set. It had been quite a while since I last read it. I've had readers comment already that some of my fiction reads like prophecy, but there was a passage in Retrotopia that I don't think has been mentioned yet. The main character, Peter Carr, is listening to another character talk about the downsides of technology.


"Then you have the technologies that have other costs—do you happen to know the real story about the 2020 US election, by any chance?”

That was another hard one to argue. “Yeah,” I said again. “That’s the one where hackers got into the electronic voting machines?”

“And made them report a landslide presidential victory for Bozo the Clown. Yes, that was the one."

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This was written and published in early 2016, before anybody was talking about hacked voting machines. I really, truly don't intend my novels as predictions, or for that matter instructional manuals!