I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.