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Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

~Scott Westerfeld

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Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

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I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

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I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

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When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

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I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 5th, 1963

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