I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.