American - Writer | October 15, 1953 -
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Walter Jon Williams
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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