It's Soothing To Realize That My Mind's

What Is The Shape Of Space? Is It Flat, Or Is It Bent? Is It Nicely Laid Out, Or Is It Warped And Shrunken? Is It Finite, Or Is It Infinite? Which Of The Following Does Space Resemble More: (a) A Sheet Of Paper, (b) An Endless Desert, (c) A Soap Bubble, (d) A Doughnut, (e) An Escher Drawing, (f) An Ice Cream Cone, (g) The Branches Of A Tree, Or (h) A Human Body?

Science Fiction Writers Put Characters Into A World With Arbitrary Rules And Work Out What Happens.

For Me, The Best Thing About Cyberpunk Is That It Taught Me How To Enjoy Shopping Malls, Which Used To Terrify Me. Now I Just Pretend That The Whole Thing Is Two Miles Below The Moon’s Surface, And That Half The People’s Right-brains Have Been Eaten By Roboticized Steel Rats. And Suddenly It’s Interesting Again.

Traditional Science Is All About Finding Shortcuts.

I Like To Do Things That Are Surprising And Different.