Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

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 always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

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

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

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?