To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.