I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

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.

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).