Hi, Guy,

Glad you liked ''The Island''. It does seem to have received more love than I was expecting.

Sunday does not actually know all about evolution; she teaches herself about it during the course of the tale, but she was never formally trained. And in fact, there are a lot of people who believe in gods and evolution. But you're right; she is an atheist. She mentions Jesus simply because it's a common epithet, learned as she was growing up; it doesn't imply any sort of actual religious belief.

Overall, Sunday is ''near'' to us -- culturally, mentally. Eriophora launches less than a century from the present day, so what we have is essentially a contemporary person observing the whole universe run down in stop-motion increments. You'll be seeing Sunday and her buddies again.

Cheers,
Peter