A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

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.

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.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

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

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.