Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.