The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incom….

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration..

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign i….

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat"..

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else..

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch..

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night..

I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to p….

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything..

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced ill….

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life..

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses..

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of so….

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry..

For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between t….

Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging f….

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers c….

Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology ma….

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, ….

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require….