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In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

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An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.

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There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.

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I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness.

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There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.

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I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

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'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.

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I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.

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South Florida, Central Florida, and North Florida could never be mistaken for each other. Each has its quirks and attractions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 7th, 1968

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