See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.