I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.