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I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

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If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 17th, 1948

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