I don't like allegory.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.