Fiction Quotes by Edward M. Lerner

8 Fiction quotes by Edward M. Lerner

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Edward M. Lerner blends scientific imagination with narrative flair, delivering lines that feel both plausible and thrilling. These eight snippets provide a concise glimpse of his inventive, forward‑thinking storytelling.

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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In…

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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to…

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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels…

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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -…

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I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever…

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Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and…

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What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

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“Examining the new assailants, the predator inferred something of vital importance: These creatures had been crafted specifically to attack it. The predator had no…

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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a…

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I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is…

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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote…

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One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

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Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

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The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the…

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