Having such a clear-eyed vision of the future in your fiction, do you frighten yourself?

I do frighten myself, but: a) it’s fiction  and b) nothing can be predicted, because there are too many variables. So I’m looking at possible futures, not inevitable ones.

Science fiction seems to be more often written by men — George Orwell and Aldous Huxley to name the most well known — can you comment on that? Have you been inspired by their work?

Yes, most often but not always. The two you name were read by me as an adolescent. Orwell was a more direct inspiration, though both have played their part. I read a lot of sci fi as a young person. And my thesis topic circled around books of this type — not real sci fi, but strange tales.

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