Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.