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I listen to terrible music when exercising. I mean, like, early Madonna, Boney M, the Fratellis, Shakira... I can't claim interesting musical taste.

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I really hope that men read 'The Power' and watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' and read 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

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I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things.

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I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

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I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.

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After the novel was published, I came to feel that I couldn't call myself Orthodox anymore. It's so patriarchal, anti-women, anti-gay. There was something about writing 'Disobedience'... it felt like I had put it all in the book. I had done my best by it, recorded what it meant for me. I felt I was done.

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I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.

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The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

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The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

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I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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