American - Author | March 7, 1945 -
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
Elizabeth Moon
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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