I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.