> Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed tame and boring by comparison A near-future series (Hal

> Plus he had to basically bin a year's work when the US elected Trump and suddenly his "satire" seemed tame and boring by comparison A near-future series (Halting State) was also cut short when the Scottish independence referendum (and the subsequent Brexit vote) rendered that future impossible. That said, his Empire Games trilogy is set in a near future where the internal multiverse concept successfully allows for explicit discrepancies from our timeline.