Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.