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.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

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