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The Modern World (novel) events and frightened of losing his closest friend, he reveals that he has begun to use the drug scolopendium once again. The Modern World (novel) The Modern World is a fantasy/science fiction novel (2007) by Steph Swainston and is the sequel to "The Year of Our War" (2004) and "No Present Like Time" (2005). "The Modern World" is published as Dangerous Offspring in the USA. The first chapter of "The Modern World" is available on Steph Swainston's website The novel is set in the Fourlands, a country in danger of being overrun by large hostile Insects, and follows the exploits