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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Amusement Base Book Cachalot Character Directly Every Known Someone
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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All Depend Fantasy Nature None Research Story
Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Beings Children Elaborate Even Fabricate Human
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Entire Head Note Oratorios Symphony Write
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Advance Especial Existence Joy One Prepare Spontaneous
I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Challenge Much Myself Often Possible Try
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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Another Better Crazy Cure Feel Make One Thing Yourself
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Certain Kife Reward Sacrifice Sterility
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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Been Diet Discover Fury Gain Hit Month Pound Six Storm Women
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Allow Always Time Travel Want World Write
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Dozen Early Half Least Morning Usually Newspaper Portion Read Web White
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start Write
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Insanity Lay
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Better Chaos Freedom Just Light
Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Decade Last Went Worldcon Year
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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Business Convention Fantasy Make Purpose Usually World Year
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Apex Emptiness Surround
I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Celebrity Century Like People Really Rong
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Always Belief Hard Intrude Reality
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Carefully Danger Real Some Structure Thought Well
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Four Get Important More Page Perfect Spend Week
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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Before Consciousness Enjoy French-fries Piece Second Split Star Tree
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency

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