It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.