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My favourite sites are all about web accessiblity, like Jakob Nielsen's site, but I'm afraid I've got quite utilitarian in my uses of the web. I buy things for friends and family in America on it. I find train times on it. I get a quick short article on a subject from it. I do not surf for fun much.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: About Afraid America Article Buy Family Favourite Find Friends Friends And Family Fun Get Got Like Much Quick Quite Short Site Sites Subject Surf Things Times Train Uses Utilitarian Web

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Franchising implies a financial arrangement, and I am always pleased to consider those.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Always Am Arrangement Consider Financial Implies Pleased Those I Am

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The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: About Annoys Anything Bounce Difficult Forget Getting Me Medium Out People Reading Reminds Seems Them Trouble Very Web Which World Write Writing

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I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Also Better Despair Form Online Quality Reading Screen Sure Think Until

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Traditional fiction has a little bit of spatial exploration but is basically a question of time - the question is, what happens next?

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Basically Bit Exploration Fiction Happens Little Little Bit Next Question Spatial Time Traditional

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'253' has a little bit of time in it, but basically, everything's happening at once in a small space, and you're exploring the space. 'What happens next?' is not the question that you're asking or answering. It's where do you go, and why should you go there?

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Answering Asking Basically Bit Everything Exploring Go Happening Happens Little Little Bit Next Once Question Should Small Space Time Where Why You

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With the hyperlinks, '253' says, 'Look at all the links we have we don't know about.' Without the links, the message becomes, 'Look at God's infinite variety.'

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: About Becomes God Infinite Know Links Look Message Says Variety Without

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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Being Being Done Done Fact Fascinating Fiction Find Frustrating Imaginative Look Lot More Much Pages Say Science Science Fiction Scientists Stuff Than They Say Things Way Which Work

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It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.

~Geoff Ryman

Topics: Difficult Experience Find Needs Scientists Storytellers Understand

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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