My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.