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Patrick Nielsen Hayden

(1959) Essayist United States

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an essayist from the United States, best known for New Magics.

Quick Facts About Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Born: January 2, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Essayist
Notable works: New Magics
Spouse: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

About Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick James Nielsen Hayden, is an American science fiction editor, fan, fanzine publisher, essayist, reviewer, anthologist, teacher and blogger. He is a World Fantasy Award and Hugo Award winner, and was an editor and the Manager of Science Fiction at Tor Books until his retirement on January 5, 2026.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology

Quotes 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?…

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Death

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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for…

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Been

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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…

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Before

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Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If…

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Accountants

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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff…

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Apologizing

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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…

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About

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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

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Blog

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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

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Book

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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer…

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Back

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I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying…

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Adventure

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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level…

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Author

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So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or…

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Books

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Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against…

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Against

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As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote…

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Blog

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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and…

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Amount

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