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 FOSTERDawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The 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.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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