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The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Also Anthropology Engineering Fiction Just Linguistics Physics Psychology Science Science Fiction

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One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Ants Anything Awesome Being Chocolate Matter Nearly Production Productive Research Tea Textile Things Work Writer I Can

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In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Characters Different Either Else Future Gender Here Much Now Only Roles Stereotypes Still Supposedly Used Various Sf

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Working for several years as a waitress, you learn really quickly a couple of default scripts, so you know exactly what the interaction is going to be when the person sits down at the table.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Couple Default Down Exactly Exactly What Going Interaction Know Learn Person Quickly Really Scripts Several Table Waitress Working Years You

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I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Angry Been Convey Gender Neutrality Number People Really Surprised Tried Using Were Who I Tried

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Junk food's not going anywhere. The specifics of what's being snacked on, and what's considered 'junk' and what's 'healthy' will change, of course, depending on what's available.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Anywhere Available Being Change Considered Course Depending Food Going Healthy Junk Will

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Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Edges Elegant Excellent Fictional Food Frame Kind Like Make Past Real Seem Very Way World

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When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Boy Club Fiction Had Kid Perception Science Science Fiction Supposed Whatever

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I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Actual Going Hugo Just Matter Never Possibility Pretend Real Thought Winning

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I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

~Ann Leckie

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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