I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.