Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
From David Brin
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.
I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.
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