I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.