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

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

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

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

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

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.

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