I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
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