I like to do things that are surprising and different.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.