Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

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 think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

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

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.