Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.