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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.

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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

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People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 6th, 1972

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