People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

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

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.