I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) ….

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children..

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward,….

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat)..

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess….

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….

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

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

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say..

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness..

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….

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….

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated..

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

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?.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's no….

I don't do flash fiction..

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….

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap ….

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect….

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..