Redefining Utopia - Kim Stanley Robinson interviewed

What started you writing?
I have always loved to read, and when I was in college I began to write poetry and then short stories, just to see if I could. I felt the urge to try it.
I gather that you lived in Washington DC and Nepal. Did these inform the writing [...]

Cold war? - Ken Macleod interviewed

Many thanks for your time.
You’re welcome, and thank you for having me on your blog.
You contributed a short story to the GlorifyingTerrorism anthology but you are not really known as a short story writer. What made you contribute?
What made me contribute was political agreement with an appeal from the editor, Farah Mendlesohn! This [...]

The Execution Channel

Ken Macleod’s previous oeuvre won’t prepare you for the Execution Channel.
The UK is sitting on the political fence between the superpowers and is drawn into the “war on terror” when it is attacked anonymously. The Travis family becomes intimately bound into the larger global narrative. Jack Travis finds himself torn between who to give his [...]