Next, John Moore talks about his new novel, A Fate Worse Than Dragons. (By the way, let me know if any of you would be interested in a major anthology of space-aardvark stories…)

I have far more ideas for stories than I'll ever have time to write, but one thing I can't do is generate ideas on demand.  An editor will email me with a request to contribute to an anthology:  "We are now accepting submissions for Aardvarks in Space Vol. II.  We're looking for fast-paced, cutting edge stories of no more than 7000 words relating to aardvarks and space travel.  Are you interested?"  And my answer is yes, I'm interested, but unless an aardvark story just happens to come to me, I can't contribute.

Except that once the idea is placed in my subconscious, it bubbles around until a story does burst forth.  Alas, this invariably happens five days after the deadline is past.