I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.