I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

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

Escape is a consumer goods like another