Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
From John Scalzi
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.
I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.
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