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I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president -... →
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at... →
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get... →
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