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Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.