I Would Normally Never Set Out To

My First Duty To Write A Gripping Yarn. Second Is To Convey Credible Characters Who Make You Feel What They Feel. Only Third Comes The Idea.

Only People With Full Stomachs Become Environmentalists.

I Would Normally Never Set Out To Write A Trilogy.

Predicting Has A Spotty Record In Science Fiction. I've Had Some Failures. On The Other Hand, I Also Predicted The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And The Rise Of Fundamentalist Islam... And I'm Not Happy To Be Right In All Of Those Cases

Change Is The Principal Feature Of Our Age And Literature Should Explore How People Deal With It. The Best Science Fiction Does That, Head-on.