That’s how I started thinking about ImmerSyst, and how that could create everyone’s ideal world at the same time through a shared virtual reality. I really liked that – having your individual idea of what a utopia would look like.
The other thing was, I had just written a non-fiction booked called Where’s My Jetpack?, and I came across this notion – I can’t remember who said the quote– of this thing called the ‘vanilla future’ the idea that everything in the future will be vanilla-smelling and perfect and wonderful. That definitely inspired the relationship between the old man and the boy in The Nostalgist. Which is this boy, who is there when he leaves and there when he comes back. I had just read The Old Man And Sea, and in that novel, this old man only has a relationship with one other human being. I was inspired to write The Nostalgist by a number of things. But I had always wanted to write these stories, with something poignant and emotional. Well, I had just done this degree in robotics, so I was very rooted at the time in the world of real robots. As good a place to start as any – how did the idea for The Nostalgist come to you?
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