I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".