The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.