I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.