American - Scientist | March 22, 1946 -
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
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It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
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I like to do things that are surprising and different.
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I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
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If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
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