Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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