New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- I am not Shakespeare.

There can be no sentence that self-evident, and yet-after watching Pluribus-it bears mentioning. Pluribus, the sensational new Apple TV drama created by Breaking Bad maker Vince Gilligan, is about an earth where aliens have bound (nearly) the entire human population into a hive-mind, where they efficiently live and share the world's resources with each knowing everything the other knows. This is a compelling what-if, with no war and no crime, and a world living and working as one, in perfect harmony.

However, within this hive-mind, romance novelist Carol Sturka is just as good as William Shakespeare. She creates plots, characters, arcs. Her books affect and move readers. She tells stories. Ther...