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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.

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There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.

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I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

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Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

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A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

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I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

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Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.

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The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

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One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: April 29th, 1960

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