I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

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

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.

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

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

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

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