American - Author | 1967 -
The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
Laura Anne Gilman
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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