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I don’t think there’s anything accidental about it, per se, but that doesn’t mean it’s calculating or –ed, either. I think, rather, that it’s a more innocent and in some ways obvious thing than that. I see the world a certain way, I have certain political concerns, which are very fundamental to the way I relate to the world. Inevitably, that means trying to be an activist, definitionally around those issues with which I’m interested and concerned. Simultaneously, as the things which very importantly colour the way I look at the world, it’s no surprise those issues are present in the fiction, though as you say, often refracted to various degrees and in various ways through fantastic prisms. It’s simply a question of that being the way I relate to the world, those being the things that I tend to notice and see as important, and through which I understand things. And while I’m sometimes very conscious of thinking about such things in the fiction, it’s not a calculated point or a piece of propaganda – though it may (or may not) be a deliberate rumination on the issue – it’s me writing about the totality of the world in the way that makes sense to me. Which is exactly what pretty much all writers always do, I’d have thought.