Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.