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

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

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

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.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

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