The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.