I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

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

What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!