Photo by Lawrie Photography Miles Cameron is a full time writer who lives in Canada with his family. He also writes historical fiction under the name Christian Cameron. His latest novel is Artifact Space . Why science fiction? I've been reading Science Fiction since I got a copy of Starship Troopers when I was twelve, and I can remember watching the PILOT for Star Trek with my parents. I had to go to bed before it was over... So I love the genre. But in a more general way, I think Science Fiction is our attempt to tell the history of the future, wether by way of warning or by way of prediction or sometimes just in hope. The book is set in what feels like a neo-feudal society - what made you pick this social setting? It wasn't meant to be Neo-Feudal, but based on the Republic of Venice -- in space. The DHC (The Directorate of Human Corporations), the trade bloc that trades with Aliens and has become a defacto interstellar government) is a word play on the 'Dieci' or