American - Author | December 15, 1937 - March 10, 2000
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
John Sladek
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
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