The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.