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I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.
John Joseph Adams
Love
Magic
Follow
Fantasy
Geek
Metal
Oakland
Orlando
Raiders
SF
I Love
Listen
I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
Bob Shaw
Life
Rich
Ambition
Beer
Full Life
Magazines
Utterly
Worldly
SF
Because
Buy
Few
Full
Knew
Needed
Week
Which
Without
The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
Karl Schroeder
Never
Way
Right
Writer
Required
SF
Put
When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Science
Great
Poetry
Look
American Economy
Avid
Barely
Great American
Science Fiction
Suggested
Teenager
Twenties
SF
American
Been
Did
Economy
Ever
Fiction
First
Friend
Going
Had
Late
Like
Might
Reader
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
Paul Di Filippo
Politics
Science
Religion
More
Crowded
Delivered
Literary
Novelist
Opinions
Robert
Science Fiction
Sexuality
Topics
Views
SF
Fiction
Field
Himself
His
Many
Other
Strong
Than
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
Jack L. Chalker
Like
Too Much
Holiday
Used
SF
Much
Read
Too
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.
Stanley Schmidt
Good
Better
Nasty
Us
Futures
Good Ones
Range
SF
Anything
Anything Else
Avoid
Else
Our
Possible
Realize
Show
Than
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
Greg Egan
New
Sometimes
More
Book
Australian
Boom
Edition
Publisher
Publishing
Recently
Undergone
SF
Easier
First
Likely
Local
Makes
Sell
Then
Us
Which
Writers
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Karl Schroeder
I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.
Elizabeth Hand
I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.
Chris Wooding
Cool
You
Hate
Technology
Advance
Decent
Hundred
Plot
SF
Allowed
Bit
Book
Books
Characters
Fantasy
Five
Ideas
Make
Need
Off
Page
Story
Think
Which
Without
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Long
Time
Never
Long Time
Indeed
Submissions
Venue
SF
Been
Fantasy
Has-Been
Original
Our
Process
Since
Totally
Were
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From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.
Samuel R. Delany
Black
Gay
Pretty
Much
SF
Writer
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
Walter Jon Williams
Experience
Will
New
More
Author
Broader
Contribute
Reads
Table
SF
Bring
Little
Only
Someone
Who
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.
Paul Di Filippo
Science
Magic
Bag
More
Embraced
Evolved
Fantasy
Gadgets
Genre
Grab
Icons
Organically
Paradigm
Parameters
Partake
Realistic
Themes
SF
Characters
Course
Others
Really
Some
Which
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
Karl Schroeder
Work
Will
Creativity
Creative
Foresight
Possibility
Ruin
Wellspring
SF
Area
Different
Goes
Than
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?
Paul Di Filippo
Science
Travel
Possible
Pure
Brief
Darth
Darth Vader
Empire
Hardly
Justification
Offers
Powers
Quill
Star Wars
Vader
Wars
SF
Any
Greater
His
Makes
Star
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Rudy Rucker
You
Beginning
Advice
Done
Awhile
Sending
SF
Finish
Keep
Lot
Out
Quite
Write
Writers
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
Sarah Zettel
Feel
Right
Now
Through
Experimental
Phase
SF
Going
I Feel
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey
Never
Ideas
Fantasy
Want
Agent
Brand
Collection
Editors
Genre
Jumping
Neither
Nor
Risk
Sell
Traditional
SF
Able
Been
Known
Small
Which
Writer
I like SF environments that seem used, and lived in, every day; not just rolled off a props truck. Look around you! Everything is scuffed, scratched, dinged, faded, even rusty.
Antony Johnston
You
Day
Look
Like
Environments
Faded
Props
Rusty
Scratched
Truck
SF
Around
Even
Every
Every Day
Everything
Just
Lived
Off
Seem
Used
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Walter Jon Williams
Every
Period
Also
Reader
Robert
Touchstone
SF
Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
Joe Murray
Normal
Only
Environment
First
Produced
Unaware
I Tried
SF
Did
Ever
Had
Run
Series
Since
Studio
Tried
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
John Sladek
Least
Advantage
Preconceptions
SF
Depending
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
Paul Di Filippo
Science
War
Battle
Always
Birth
Encompass
Genre
Novels
Scenarios
Science Fiction
Speculative
Trademark
Warfare
What If
SF
Been
Before
Could
Easily
Even
Fiction
How
Part
There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.
Alastair Reynolds
Thinking
Discipline
More
Most
Drawn
Failures
Scientific
Successes
SF
Any
Little
Modern
Much
Than
Which
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven
Time
Never
Way
Direction
Embedded
Genre
Genres
Hardly
Matrix
One Time
SF
Any
Because
Cut
Field
Going
Off
Which
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
Frederik Pohl
Time
May
Enough
Ideas
Date
Fraction
One Time
Scientists
SF
Another
Because
Becoming
Early
Either
Interesting
Just
Just Because
Large
Later
Liked
Lot
Most
Part
Played
Read
Some
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
John Sladek
People
Think
More
Connection
Boost
Detective
More People
Puzzles
SF
Because
Books
Days
I Think
Little
Other
Read
Sure
Two
Would
Would-Be
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Kim Harrison
You
Like
Reading
Fast
Plots
Worlds
SF
Fully
Grew
Places
Realized
Take
Up
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