China Mieville

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.