Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn 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.)

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

I don't do flash fiction.

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.