I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

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

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

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

Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.