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Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.