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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

I used to not back down from a challenge.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

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.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

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