““I expect you to recognize the inevitable when you see it in front of you.” The publisher gestured with his hand. “This cataclysm is coming, regardless of anything you and I might try to do. Two months from now, the year after next, a decade hence—this little island will be plunged into chaos. But, ah, what comes out of that chaos. . .now that is not nearly so inevitable. And that is what I am offering to you—to us—the chance to take that chaos and use it to forge the world we see in our dreams. The world we believe in. So, are you with me?””