I'm Not A Great Believer In Awards-of

...and I Confess That, Like A Child, I Cry. Ah, Self-pity; I Think We Are At Our Most Honest And Sincere When We Feel Sorry For Ourselves.

Science Fiction Has Its Own History, Its Own Legacy Of What's Been Done, What's Been Superseded, What's So Much Part Of The Furniture It's Practically Part Of The Fabric Now, What's Become No More Than A Joke... And So On. It's Just Plain Foolish, As Well As Comically Arrogant, To Ignore All This, To Fail To Do The Most Basic Research.

Escape Is A Consumer Goods Like Another

It Was The Day My Grandmother Exploded.

I Don't Really Do Themes. I Might Accidentally, But Themes Are An Emergent Phenomena Of The Writing Of The Book, Of Just Trying To Get A Story Out There.