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

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

I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

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

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.