I Try To Have A Mood Or

My Interest Is In Power. How Power Works.

You Can Lose A Reader In A Blink Of An Eye. If A Person Is An Engineer Or Chemist Or An Anthropologist Or Whatever, You Spoil The Whole Book For That Person If There's Obviously Ignorance Here. What's Wrong With So Much Science Fiction Is That The Science Is So Lousy That It Isn't Worth Paying Attention To.

I Used To Work Very Long Hours. Then I Started To Realize That The Stuff That I Was Writing In The Late Afternoons, I Was Generally Throwing Out. So I Quit Earlier Than I Used To.

Whenever I Go To Work I Wear A Jacket And A Tie, Because I'm Inherently Quite Lazy, And My Books Take So Long To Do, And My Publishers Don't Bug Me, So It's So Easy To Fool Yourself Into Thinking You're Working Harder Than You Really Are.

I Think President Obama Has Done More Than He Is Given Credit For.