My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that. When I first went to get my state ID card, the form asked for eye color. I tried to write in all the colors in my own eyes, but the space wasnt big enough. They told me to put 'brown'. I put 'brown', but that is not the only color in my eyes. It is just the color that people see because they do not really look atr other people's eyes.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.