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 FOSTERAdvances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my 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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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