Chris Beckett returns to the show to talk about his book ‘America City’.  Chris has written over 20 short stories and six novels, starting with The Holy Machine published in 2004 and including 'Dark Eden' for which he won the Arthur C. Clark Award in 2012. ‘America City’ describes the consequences of a refugee crisis resulting from climate change, and the slippery slope of propaganda used in service to political power.  We talk about how prescient this book was, published in 2017 just after Donald Trump came to power and made the invasion of Canada a shockingly plausible future scenario.  We discuss colonialism, herd mentality, the use of social media for propaganda, and the 'othering' of people both domestic and foreign. 

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