You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.

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

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.