Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.