Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead o….

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well..

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be cha….

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more….

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind..

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper ….

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies..

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our a….

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the A….

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, o….

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also ab….

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story d….

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there.….

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is go….

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere..

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doi….

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked….

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now..

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more ….

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together..

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing..