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

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

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

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

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.

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

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.