American - Writer | April 30, 1938 -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
MeProblemNewRightNamesYears
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
DoingLongNewKnowNeedBeen
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
TimeDirectionWayNeverCutGoing
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
ChildhoodGenerationHumanTwoNext
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
BelieveRunSurprisesOut
I don't have a strong interest in history.
HistoryStrongInterest
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
FutureMedicalMeMoonLanguageOut
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
GoodPeopleWillNeverDecideGot
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
PrivacyPassingSuspectFad
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
EducationRepairSystemSomething
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LifeMyselfPeopleMy LifeBrighter
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
LifeArtMeTreatMy LifeWatching
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