The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.