It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.