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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

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I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

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I don't have a strong interest in history.

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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 30th, 1938

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