I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.