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Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters. Without an established…

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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger…
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from…
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…

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