Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

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.

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

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

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

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