Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I was a precocious reader.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.