My velocipede is in regular use. Bow also.

This is one reason why I am glad I am not a successful writer . . . done too much commuting about since I was a child. Happy to chat in cosy obscurity with the odd reader met by chance on a riverbank . . . and then pedal home!

Science is complicated. If anything the effect is for Fathers rather than mothers, its slight, not straightforwardly linear for either, and may simply be a coincidence: The fashion for older parenting happening to coincide with the development of diagnostic tools for autism. I am autistic, hi!

If my brain thought of the possibility, it can think of the actuality. Trust The Process.

Is this the future of the 'writing prompt'? Human writers forced to write the books an AI has hallucinated?

The City and the City, China Mieville. A book I find myself walking through in real life. A book that has stained out into my reality.

Another vote for Earthsea.

That's the very one I was thinking of.

Ruskin wrote a whole essay about how pollution changed the sky

Hi there! Good to see other UK authors joining!

Thanks so much for your enthuiasm. I am slow but relentless and further works are in preparation!