As some readers have noted, the weather conditions depicted in Reintroduction represent more than a desire to make a statement on the inevitable consequences of unchecked climate change. Certainly, the ecological disaster into which we drift like a herd of somnambulists is of the utmost importance. As the recent Cop26 debacle clearly demonstrated, we do not have the…

I was recently asked by a reader whether Caspar Ulmer from Reintroduction was based on Donald Trump. Ulmer was created as a character about seven years ago, before Trump even registered for me. Although the overall narrative has evolved considerably over time, I never re-imagined Ulmer as I did with several of the others. Looking at early drafts,…