Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.