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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger…
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…
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Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and…
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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.
— Horatio Nelson
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My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes…
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I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.
— Ron Fournier
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
— Nick Hornby
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Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has…
— Tom Peters
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I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have…
— Laurie R. King
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The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same…
— Paul Di Filippo
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