There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.