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The Biggest Misconception That People Have About The Literary Life Is The Romance Of It. That A Writer Has This Large World Available To Him Or Her Of People, Of Ideas, Of Experiences, Of Interchange Of Ideas...

I Think Of Writers As Explorers, Not Necessarily As Detectives. So There Is Certainly Detecting That Is Going On - They're Explorers.

Science Fiction [is] The Kind Of Writing That Prepares Us For The Necessary Mutations Brought About In Society From An Ever Changing Technological World And As A Result. The Mainstream Hasn’t Excluded Sf; The Mainstream Has Excluded Itself. No One Told Jules Verne He Was A Science Fiction Writer, But He Invented The 20th Century.

It Was Mid-november 2008. There Were Pirates Taking Ships With Impunity In African Waters, Terrorists Punching Holes In Indian Security, China Sinking Towards Depression Because Americans Were Afraid To Buy Cheap Goods For Christmas, And The Richest Nation In The History Of The World Was Talking About How To Keep A Budget.

I Believe That A Writer Has To Tell What They Think Is The Truth In A Human Experience. The Truth Of The Human Experience Cannot Escape The Political.