Biggest influence: my mother..

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-….

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….

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and ne….

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail..

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead..

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade..

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningle….

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it..

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux….

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..

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skil….

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to th….

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown..

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?.

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

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

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epi….

I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary,….

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….

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….