I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.