Any favourite places on the net? I really like Mcsweeneys, a literary site coming out of Brooklyn. There's also another site set up by a woman in the States called My Bunnies which is a whole website just devoted to her rabbits! At the moment I've been sending greeting cards from Moonpig.

Has the net changed the role of the writer? I haven't written much stuff purely for online. I still have quite a fond attachment to writing I can hold in my hand! It's maybe changed research more radically than writing. I have access to a thing called the Lexis-Nexis Database at Florida State University and that puts almost every book and newspaper article at my fingertips. Some writers say the e-book is going to change everything and others say that it won't because we love paper too much. I think as long as the story or the content is good it doesn't matter so much how it's delivered.

How do you feel about the some of the copyright implications of content on the net? Writing fiction has never really been that much of an exercise in making profit! I think that the people responsible for publishing books will find some way to put people in a vice and get the money out of them somehow.

Should companies put more open source content on the web? It would be a great thing if libraries were allowed to put out open source books. I guess some other services in the world would have to be free if good writing was made free. I would say that I've seen it in the past with rock shows or theatre that if people have to pay money they're more attentive.

Is information freer in the online community? Tom Paine.com deals with the freedom of information on the web. I think there might be a broader range and I think the online magazines seem to have a freedom to be more individual. I used to write about the military so I find sites like the Federation of American Scientists' site invaluable for letting you know the stuff that the American military don't really want you to know. However, you can't always take all the information on the web to be true.

Are you a gadget man? I have a Palm Pilot and I really wanted this thing for it called a Rolodex which was the size of a PCMCIA card but I don't think they do them any more. I'd love to get an MP3 player. I'd also like someone to make me a remote control that I can use to bring my other remote control to me.

Shall the geek inherit the earth? I think they already did! There was an article in the New York Times magazine about how high school kids who show an amazing aptitude towards maths and science don't think of themselves as geeks anymore and they don't look like geeks anymore.

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