I've definitely been asked about some of the characters. These characters are composites. In general, people want fiction to be really simple, like, 'This is his life.' And it's just not true.

Energy issues are important to people, and we're are struggling with how to deal with that publicly.

These people come from other places, and they want to make all these changes, they can't comprehend why we do this. My grandfather, my father and my uncles -- they all taught me to shoot fish. It's our history.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

The difference, we have to purchase. It's a big cost to us.