A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.