I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

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Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

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I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

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I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

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