That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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