Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.