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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.