Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.