Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

- Charlie Jane Anders

There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make us…

- Charlie Jane Anders

I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot o…

- Charlie Jane Anders

There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like f…

- Charlie Jane Anders

On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly awar…

- Charlie Jane Anders

Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some…

- Charlie Jane Anders

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to h…

- Charlie Jane Anders

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actua…

- Charlie Jane Anders

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happenin…

- Charlie Jane Anders