McEwan is one of Britain’s most commercially and critically successful novelists, a five-time Booker Prize finalist who won the prestigious award in 1998 for 'Amsterdam'. Photo: AP
When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias.
Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in What We Can Know, a book he calls “science fiction without the science”.
