The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)