Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.
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I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
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