Escape is a consumer goods like another

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

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 saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

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