I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

The village is coming back, like it or not.