Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

My Google-fu is strong.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

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

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.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.