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

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.