I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The c...
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin...
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and gi...
What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you d...
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of g...
Bio-technology is the science of the future.
Science is not addressed to poets.
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
