A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

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

In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

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 that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

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