Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

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.