I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, ….

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun….

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change….

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice..

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk..

The bomb lives only as it is falling..

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big player….

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a dis….

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is..

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to l….

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really..

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa..

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them..

It was the day my grandmother exploded..

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; b….

Escape is a consumer goods like another.

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quit….

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small prin….

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy..

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who….

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way ….