In Time, In Time They Tell Me,

My Job Is Not To Try To Give Readers What They Want But To Try To Make Readers Want What I Give.

I Do, However, Feel Reasonably Strongly The Sense That The Job Of A Piece Of Argumentative Scholarly Non-fiction Is Not The Same As The Job Of A Piece Of Fiction.

A Sickly Little Smile Grew And Died On His Mouth Like A Fungus.

When I'm Writing A Book, Generally I Start With The Mood And Setting, Along With A Couple Of Specific Images—things That Have Come Into My Head, Totally Abstracted From Any Narrative, That I've Fixated On. After That, I Construct A World, Or An Area, Into Which That General Setting, That Atmosphere, And The Specific Images I've Focused On Can Fit.

I Think Science Fiction Is Very Bad At Prediction.