Describe your latest book.
Walkaway is my first adult novel since 2009; I call it an "optimistic disaster novel." It's a novel about a society where the super rich and their automation technologies have made the rest of us surplus to requirements, but we stubbornly refuse to disappear. Instead, a group of Promethean refuseniks steal fire from the gods: using stolen code and the waste-stream of mainstream society, they erect self-constructing buildings on toxic brownfield sites and turn them into fancy outposts of a futuristic Fully Automated Leisure Communist society. When the one-percenters who lay claim to the toxic dumps and garbage they're living off of show up and demand their return, the walkaways walk away: the world has an abundance of waste, code, and toxic dumps...