I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
From Margaret Atwood
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
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