My *Armed With A Book* Interview

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The Universe Box, my newest collection of short fiction from Tachyon Publications is now available for sale! And in an absolute non-coincidence, I've been interviewed on Armed With A Book. (Great title, by the way.)

As a general rule, interviews tend to be either serious ("How does it feel to be a genius?" "Um, good, I guess") or silly ("Give me the names of three ducks." "Um, Huey, Dewey, and Donald"). This was one of the serious ones. But I did my best to be serious and entertaining at the same time. Here, for instance, is part of my answer to the question of what keeps me returning to short fiction:

The novel is a wonderful, shambling, shaggy, and digressive beast that eats what it wants and sleeps where it will. The short story is a predator. It zeroes in on its prey, stalks it, and attacks. The novel is about many things. The short story, only one. But that one is worth every word spent on it.

Which should give you an idea of whether the interview is your sort of thing or not. If it is, you can read it here. Or just go to Armed With A Book at armedwithabook.com and poke around. It's a pretty nifty website.

Above: I stole the "three ducks" witticism from either Michael Kurland's The Unicorn Girl or Chester Anderson's The Butterfly Kid, I forget which. There weren't many hippie science fiction novels, but those were two of the best.

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