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Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
