Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

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

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

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?

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".

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.