"Tor is the hard one. They employ a lot of editors, whose tastes vary. They don't always indicate who has edited what …"

"I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface."

"As I've often said, I'm a fan of hard SF. No, it's more like I am addicted to it, even the stepped-on 20 times and cu…"

"We discovered at one point that the brick wall of the pillar would hold up a sock pretty well. This led to sorting so…"

"Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How q…"

"Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and …"

"Yes, I was surprised how easy it was to cut the door off my cat."

"In point of fact, the meteor was something like 30 km when it exploded. It was over north Waterloo and I was north of…"

"It's true that the average human in the Xeelee universe can't eat Jell-O with a straw without accident[al]ly removing…"

"Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the ques…"