The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

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

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

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