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'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships.
Kameron Hurley
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Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.
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What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false.
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If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.
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I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves.
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Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.
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Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one.
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Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.
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I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to do, and what you find out is that they're going to bully you anyway. And I thought, 'You know what? If I'm going to get bullied anyway, I might as well get bullied for making a difference in the world.'
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I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.
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Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges.
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There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet.
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