Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.