And anyway, I like not knowing where the genre is going, and being surprised when it gets there. I don’t know that you could look at the science fiction of 1970 and necessarily derive from that the science fiction of 2020, so I I’m not in a rush to imagine what the science fiction of 2070 will be based on what’s being written and published now - except to say that I imagine science fiction will still be an active genre then. Where do you think SF will evolve towards in the coming 50+ years, especially since you are likely to be an influence? Since some trends might interest you, and others not so much, are there trends you might like to try as a writer, especially if you are the creator of the trend? It is likely SF authors and readers from the 1930s would find both interest and surprise in the SF of today. As for why you should enjoy fantasy - no one says you should, just read what you want. Also these days the genre boundaries lines are fluid enough that trying to separate science fiction from fantasy will mean some arbitrary choices as to where particular titles would go (this happens enough anyway, between SF/F and mainstream). I mean, Science Fiction is fantasy (as is horror), so mixing them together doesn’t offend me, in any event, and by and large is there is a large overlap between the two with respect to both readers and publishers, so lumping them into one spot is not that much of an issue. Why is Science fiction and Fantasy mixed together in book stores and libraries? Or why should I enjoy fantasy when I prefer Science fiction?
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I do cut and paste words that have accents and diacritical marks in them because I can’t be bothered to learn how to make those marks happen on the keyboard. I don’t typically use shortcuts, no I can type pretty fast, and once you type Nohamapetan a couple dozen times, it flows out of the fingers. I had to slow down so much just to type it twice here, I can’t imagine how good a typist you’d have to be to keep typing those names! As a general rule, I do tend to think that things an author intentionally left unpublished were left unpublished for a reason, but I can certainly understand why Heinlein fans/academics/completists would be excited about writing from him they had not yet seen.ĭo you use any word-processing shortcuts? Like, do you type “Nohamapetan” in all its 11 letter glory every time, or do you have an auto-complete option for it and other long proper names? Like alt-shift-N fills in Nohamapetan, or something. I’m not a huge fan of The Number of the Beast, the novel it is a conjoined twin of (it shares the first third with it, as I understand it), so while I was curious about it, it’s not something I was in a rush to read. I haven’t read it so I can’t talk about it critically. What do you think about The Pursuit of the Pankera, that somewhat-new book published by Robert A. The best way for fans to help: Keep buying books, and if you can buy them from your local booksellers, so much the better. This doesn’t mean science fiction/fantasy or publishing is out of the woods yet, because I don’t think the economy generally is out of the woods yet, but honestly it could have been much worse. And, of course, on my end I got higher up on the bestseller lists than I ever had before, and I’m not the only one - Martha Wells’ latest Murderbot book placed nicely on the NYT list as well.
Science fiction and publishing, at least the part of it I work in, is doing fine, actually - book sales have actually been steady or even up a bit, which is a bit astonishing considering how difficult it was to buy books from local bookstores recently. How is the SciFi and broader publishing industry doing in Covid-19? Who’s going to be OK, who’s hurting, and what’s the best way for fans to help?
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Honestly I think the Interdependency series is probably more flippant than I’ve been here recently the last few years have gotten me down a bit. Not really? I think I’ve written in a similar tone to that before - see The Android’s Dream - and I think all my books carry aspects of my personality and tone, just at varying levels.
Asides, turns of phrase, sarcasm are all examples where I noticed similarities.ĭo you agree with that? Was it intentional?
The Last Emperox (and the rest of the series) read to me as much more in “your” voice, or at least more similar to how you write on Whatever than your other books. The questions you folks asked this week about writing, answered briefly: Reader Request Week 2020 #9: Writing Short Bits
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