It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.