The Physics of Compassion
An Author's Inner Voice — Reading Today from the Future
In my mind I was building the rusted, corrosion-reeking, sulphur-cloud-blanketed dystopia of centuries hence — yet the more I let my characters speak, the more I realised with horror that the place I was describing was not centuries away at all, but right here, right now. I built the novel's heaviest thesis on a single sentence: 'Compassion is not a moral luxury or a choice; it is an existential imperative.'

