![]() ![]() “The thing I can’t stand about Brexit is that it seems very clear that the people who will bear the human cost are those at the lower end of the wage scale, meanwhile the great imperialist nostalgia fantasy will chunder on,” he says. The subject we keep coming back to, however, is Brexit, and not simply because Harkaway, like his father, remains a passionate supporter of the European Union. “American sci-fi has always had a strand of revolution in it, which sits well with literary culture… I think it’s partially down to Philip K Dick being part of the counter-culture…” In person Harkaway, 45, is exactly the same: our conversation, which takes place in his airy, book-filled study at the top of his North London home, ranges from the most recent scientific experiments he’s read about, to the importance of technology in fiction and the good and bad points of Twitter (“I love it but I’m not sure how long I can stay on it because it’s become so ugly”) to the differences between US and UK science fiction: “American sci-fi has always had a strand of revolution in it, which sits well with literary culture… I think it’s partially down to Philip K Dick being part of the counter-culture” ![]()
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