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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
- Disagree
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- Nov 07, 2020
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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- Nov 07, 2020