I’m fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I’m fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies. – Alastair Reynolds
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator. – Eula Biss
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. – Nicolas Roeg
So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare. – Judith Tarr
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold. – Philippa Gregory
I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the ‘Mortal Engines’ series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future. – Philip Reeve
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. – Sugata Mitra
