A sizable undertaking, I’ll grant. But it’s a great example of not only terraforming a new world, but completely reshaping political and social understanding.

Sci-fi writers (the great ones) think outside the boxes that the rest of us don’t even realise we are in.

Sci-fi writers gave us the communications satellite. That’s right, spec’d up by Arthur C. Clarke.

My reaction is: Great! - at last they’re talking to someone who can think, instead of political showmen trying to win a popularity contest every 4 years.