The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

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

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

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.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

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.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!