ASM: At the same time, your work seems to be more engaged with the real world than a lot of science fiction we see (and have always seen). It’s the difference between, I suppose, early Heinlein and Captain Future. Your work is often distinctly political. How do you balance any didacticism with art?
KSR: I like writing fiction that is in the sf tradition, but can work for any reader who happens to pick it up. That’s a matter of subject and style, a kind of openness to outside readers, I guess you might call it, but I’m not sure how that is created, as it is a fuzzy business, and really you never know much about who is reading your work or why. I see an extremely wide set of reactions to my books.