Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like…

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against…

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole interest" was "instant pro…

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon whil…

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mu…

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden