I’ve been re-editing His Robot Girlfriend, making quite a few changes.  The changes are all relatively minor.  Though I’m tempted to rewrite the whole thing, I’m not doing it.

Over the years I’ve seen several reviews that renounce my politics because of what I’ve written in His Robot Girlfriend.  I was never sure what politics they were talking about, but I sort of thought it might be about gay marriage– because there is a sort of analog of gay marriage in the human/robot marriage of Mike and Patience.

Only recently did I realizet that what most were talking about was the issue of Global Warming.  When I wrote the book, I didn’t realize that it was even a political issue.  Global warming just seemed to be a fact that scientists generally agreed upon.  I knew that some people believe scientists are involved in some sort of global conspiracy, but then I knew some people don’t believe we landed on the moon and some think the world is flat.  But since I was writing a science fiction book, I took global warmin far beyond what I thought at the time ever might come to pass, just to make a better story.

In the years since I wrote the book, I’ve come to believe that I may have underestimated the effects of climate change.  If I were to write it today, I might have them living beneath tinted domes.