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

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

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

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

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.