Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

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