I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter….

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the r….

Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphone….

I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I'v….

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity..

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal..

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time..

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases..

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested..

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema)..

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year..

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others..

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.].

I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from a major WarPac nuclear target until the Ber….

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monol….

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner ..

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!.