Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

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