People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

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

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.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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.

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