In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.