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I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

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Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.

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Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

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If you look at the United States, most of the country is pretty much uninhabited.

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The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read science fiction magazines will recognize your byline on a novel.

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By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.

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I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

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The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.

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Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

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Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: April 29th, 1960

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