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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
- Isolation
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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
- Dependent
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Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020