Edward M. Lerner Quotes
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
