As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.