Anything For Gold And Experience.

Geeks Run The World. Condoleezza Rice Is A Geek, Bill Gates Is Clearly A Geek, Many Of The Big Filmmakers And Writers Are Geeks, Lots Of Military People Are Geeks. Anyone Who Has Heard Donald Rumsfeld Talk About Military Hardware Knows They Are In The Presence Of A Geek.

Old Stories Would Tell How Weavers Would Kill Each Other Over Aesthetic Disagreements, Such As Whether It Was Prettier To Destroy An Army Of A Thousand Men Or To Leave It Be, Or Whether A Particular Dandelion Should Or Should Not Be Plucked. For A Weaver, To Think Was To Think Aesthetically. To Act - To Weave - Was To Bring About More Pleasing Patterns. They Did Not Eat Physical Food: They Seemed To Subsist On The Appreciation Of Beauty.

Every Book I Write, The First Thing I Have To Do Is Get Into The Voice, And The Voice Varies From Book To Book - That's Part Of What's Interesting To Me.

I Think Science Fiction Is Very Bad At Prediction.

I'll Tell You, I've Never Particularly Been A Trek Person. I Feel About Trek The Way One Feels About Known, Vaguely Liked, But Rather Distant Members Of One's Family.