Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREven as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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