Canadian - Novelist | November 18, 1939 -
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
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I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
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If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.
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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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