It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?