"Parts are like a bad sf novel," Tannim laughed, without humor.

One of the few SF novels with real humour, sharp satire.

One of the problems was that there were simply no credible figures in the public eye who admitted to reading comics or SF novels.

What little benefit I myself can contribute to society would likely be best employed in writing better SF novels.

A good SF novel should be, above all things, a good novel.

If I ever get it finished, my own SF novel would be my first choice.

He produced no fewer than five sf novels in this decade, though one was a version of a long story previously published in the pulps.

Friendship grew, a correspondence began, and eventually Pournelle proposed a collaboration on an sf military-adventure novel.

His most famous sf novels include Hothouse and the Helliconia trilogy.

Joyce has also published a children's SF novel, Spiderbite (1997).