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

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

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.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.