It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

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

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

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.