Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

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

I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.