Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
Ned BeaumanI've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.
Ned BeaumanIt seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
Ned BeaumanThere are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.
Ned Beauman