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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

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I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

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The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

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Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

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Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

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So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

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Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 30th, 1955

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