It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.