In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — 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… — 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
I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics. — 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
