 Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. |
| What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. |
| Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. |
| Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to. |
| So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. |
| No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. |
| People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. |
| Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them. |
| I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. |
| I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. |
| I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. |
| I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership. |
| Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. |
