Cory Doctorow

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. ”

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ”

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. ”

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. ”

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart. ”

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ”

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books. ”

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust. ”

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. ”