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‘Right person, right place, right time’
At a moment when the continent’s frontiers are in acute danger of disintegration, SF author DAVE HUTCHINSON tells James Miller why he has written his acclaimed Europe novels

As razor-wire springs up like mushrooms, cross-border trafficking becomes a lucrative — and murky — business.

Of course, when Dave Hutchinson came up with that setting for his acclaimed novel Europe in Autumn he had no idea he was writing tomorrow’s headlines.

A science-fiction thriller with a strong European flavour, it landed in spring 2014 amid the Crimea conflict, simmering Scottish and Catalan independence campaigns, rumblings of Grexit and a feeling that the great EU experiment was drawing to a close.

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