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> [Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/before-the-internet-before-bbses-and-fidonet-and-usenet-and/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

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> [I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/i-have-a-severe-google-reader-habit-i-think-people-will-use-blog/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

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## Other authors on Blogs

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## More by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

> [“No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/no-one-goes-around-suggesting-that-everyone-should-become-their-own/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/tor-com-has-been-a-venue-for-original-sf-and-fantasy-since-2008-but/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/before-the-internet-before-bbses-and-fidonet-and-usenet-and/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If our "sole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/book-publishing-was-never-a-heaven-run-by-editors-and-it-is-by-no/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/do-we-really-have-to-wander-around-apologizing-for-enjoying-plot-just/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/there-s-a-latter-day-notion-that-artsy-hippie-types-in-the-1960s/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/i-have-a-severe-google-reader-habit-i-think-people-will-use-blog/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/the-small-visual-inconvenience-of-e-books-is-made-up-for-with-find/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/back-in-2008-when-we-were-first-preparing-to-launch-tor-com-i-knew-i/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/i-was-ten-years-old-in-1969-and-while-we-lived-in-arizona-that-year-i/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/obviously-it-makes-a-difference-if-an-author-has-a-public-online/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/so-many-people-s-school-experience-contains-at-least-one-instance-of/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/personally-i-always-find-it-especially-piquant-when-cultural/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/as-a-senior-editor-at-tor-books-and-the-manager-of-our-science/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

> [In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-nielsen-hayden/in-my-own-life-i-ve-seen-myself-ramping-up-the-amount-of-text-i/)

[Patrick Nielsen Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-nielsen-hayden/)

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