A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race i….

The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as th….

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fan….

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to….

Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the ye….

Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all ….

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number..

Red tape has killed more people than bullets..

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God..

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of ….

My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entir….

As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out….

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story..