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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.
- Destination
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
- Borders
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
- Boldly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020