‘The writing got serious after the children came along. After a while looking after babies I began to feel as if my brain was leaking out of my ears’
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The past couple of years have been both enjoyable and unnerving, sometimes at the same time. It was amazing to have worked away on my novel Ancillary Justice and then have people react to it so strongly. And then I won some of the biggest awards in science fiction – not just the Hugo, but also the Nebula and the Arthur C Clarke. I used to have daydreams of selling tonnes of books and having a mantelpiece full of awards. But that was just an outrageous fantasy …
How did I come to dream up this big, complicated, bleak universe, thousands of years into the future? Well, actually, I did it for fun – something I thought everyone did, but that I now know is not quite true.
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