Teleportation was a technology only the rich could afford. Zapping themselves to Capri for breakfast, Aspen for lunch, Davos for supper, they flaunted their wealth. Until, that is, a hacker reset transmission co-ordinates into the planet’s molten core. Overnight, Earth’s billionaire problem was solved.

A socialist utopia was rapidly established.

Bill is from Aberdeen, Scotland, currently still part of the UK. He shares much in common with Wordsworth, Dickens, and Orwell, in that they also lived in the UK.