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.

I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.

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.

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.

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

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?