But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

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

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

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

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

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

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