A lot of people have a precarious existence and all it takes is one adverse event like this to trip them into homelessness. There is no obvious route out of this life for Malcolm and he has assumed he will die on the street at some point.

"Culinary Alternatives To Killing Your Favourite Chicken is the name of my fashionable bestselling foraging book, which I was later cancelled for on social media after it was discovered that I stole nearly all the recipes from an out-of-print guidebook...

One reason I was immediately suspicious of musk from the start was this whole “Mars as an insurance plan” thing.

Like what?? What kind of insane idea is that? We have the nicest planet ever and we decide to go to the inhospitable one instead?