The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

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.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

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