http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4742177.stm
*Especially considering that Cory Doctorow,
a Canadian, is living in Britain.
*Ambitious sci-fi scribbling Britons can
further exult in the fact that their Prime Minister
understands global warming and isn't a Creationist.
In the US, it's stuff like the "Left Behind Series"
that's gonna move a lot of pop-fantasy product
in the Bush cultural climate –
it's apocalyptic "reli-fi."
Other rumination on what-it-all-means:
http://crookedtimber.org/2005/08/01/draft-hugos-preview/