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‟ Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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‟ Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
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‟ And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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‟ I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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‟ I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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‟ Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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‟ The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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‟ No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
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‟ So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
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‟ I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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‟ What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
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‟ Science fiction is not formulaic.
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