Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?