Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.