I Think The Future Stopped Looking American

A Lot Of What The 'culture' Is About Is A Reaction To All The Science Fiction I Was Reading In My Very Early Teens.

Oh, They Never Lie. They Dissemble, Evade, Prevaricate, Confound, Confuse, Distract, Obscure, Subtly Misrepresent And Willfully Misunderstand With What Often Appears To Be A Positively Gleeful Relish And Are Generally Perfectly Capable Of Contriving To Give One An Utterly Unambiguous Impression Of Their Future Course Of Action While In Fact Intending To Do Exactly The Opposite, But They Never Lie. Perish The Thought.

Half The Fun Of Writing A Novel Is Finding Out From Other People Later On What You Actually Meant.

In So Much Of Politics You're Not Allowed To Disagree With What's Been Agreed.

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 Players, And It's Very Corporatised.