Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

A library is also a place where love begins.

I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system