A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.