Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.