“English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”
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I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.