Finished Prediction Tablet (no idea where you would start with cutting it down. Where would you start? What would be the criteria?) and onto On the Scrapheap now.
Was this written in the covid lockdown? The word 'furlough' has cropped up a couple of times, but it's not just that. It seems very much a portrait of UK of this period, very British somehow. Quite topical in places, in other words.
There's also an 'eco' theme in there I think too - ragged dolphins washed up on the beach, plastic in the gut, anguished oceans, extinctions. Lots of animals - alligators, crocodiles, frogs, seals, cheetahs, deer, lemurs, owls, etc