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.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

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

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.

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

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.