There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.