I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWe’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSome of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREnjoying 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.
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGiven all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIt is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWhere lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSo rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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