Kraken

Kraken

1. Why a Kraken? Don't get us wrong, we love Krakens, they're awesome, but why did you center the book around one?

2. The idea of parallel universes comes up a few times in your work (as in The City and The City and Kraken). This is definitely an interesting concept, but what has led to this concept in your work?

3. In an interview, you said that Kraken marked the "end of a certain phase of my writing - a punctuation mark, a sort of breathing out." Can you expand upon this a bit? How do you think about the phase that has ended - what typified it? - and what comes next?

4. I loved the idea of a spirit-being only being able to inhabit human-shaped objects. What was the inspiration for Wati? How did that come about?

5. “Is Urban the new Fantasy”?

6. You seem to write mainly stand-alone works - and even the Bas-Lag books would fit that description. Do you have any future plans to write a series?

7. The "Remade", from Perdido Street Station, are convicts that have been physically altered or bioengineered with any number of animal and/or mechanical parts grafted on. How did this idea come about and is it a look at punishment versus rehabilitation in a penal system?

8. Anything you can tell us about what to expect from Embassytown ?

9. What does your tattoo mean?

, particularly between pages 123 and 127.

