The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.