Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you somet….

For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themse….

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends..

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet..

Syndicate is technically the first game I worked on..

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal..

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're tellin….

If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if the….

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death..

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other tre….

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults..

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to t….

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about th….

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad..

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead..

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one..

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgivin….

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true..

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry..

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough..