#WritersCoffeeClub 25 Oct. Tell us about inspiration from an unlikely source. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis! Without it, I'm pretty sure I'd never have written "Neptune's Brood", which is a space opera about financial fraud on a scale so vast the perpetrators had to colonise 200 new star systems to launder the proceeds. I don't think even Elon Musk is thinking that big … yet.