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

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.

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.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

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

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.