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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

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Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

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Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

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The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 2nd, 1948

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