If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

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.

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

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.