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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

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Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

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The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

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Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

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Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.

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When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

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Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre.

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I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

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My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

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When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

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I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

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I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

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Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

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The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things.

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Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

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My father was a major SF fan in the '40s and '50s, so the house was full of SF books. That's where I got my start and I never looked back.

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I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

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I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

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I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

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I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

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Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

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