Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.