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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Cause Effect Insist Maybe Offends Our Sense Time Time Travel Travel Universe

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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: About Author Book Door Faster Funny Funny Thing Future Get Out Stories Than Them Thing Unlucky Up

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The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Bodies Body Cells Energy Energy Sources Just Medical Miracles Novel Our Own Patient Provides Small Sources Tap

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Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Anything Binary Bit Data Flipping Just Opposite Randomly Represent Resisting State Two Values Want Wee While You

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The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Before Challenge Enriching Established Expanding Fun Future Gone History Knowledge Lies Much New New Knowledge Remaining True While Writing

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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Anything Anything Else Books Else Example For Example Isolation Mistaken Never Ought Read Some Towers Two

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Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: About Dependent Differ Enriched Merely Order Particular Readers Totally Viewers Will

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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Authors Down Figure Go Like New Projects Reading Research Sometimes Stage Surprising Writing

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Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Happily Internet Makes Once Practical Problem Research Very

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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Any Detail Down Enough Geology Gunpowder Hawaii History Much Processes Story The History Of Too Too Much Whaling

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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