What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Examining the new assailants, the predator inferred something of vital importance: These creatures had been crafted specifically to attack it. The predator had no… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
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. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
