"The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical……" — Edward M. Lerner

"The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail."

— Edward M. Lerner

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16 Quotes by Edward M. Lerner

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What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you…
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new…
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes…
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns -…
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires.…
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches…
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! -…
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than…

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves… — Emile M. Cioran
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of… — Hannah Arendt
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and… — Hu Jintao
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis

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