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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.
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Length
Scope
Writing
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The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
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Characteristic
Detail
Distinguishing
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
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Space Travel
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One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
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Epic
Interstellar
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Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.
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Collaboration
Nice
Pace
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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Readers
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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
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Travel
Time Travel
Universe
Cause
Effect
Insist
Time Travel Time Travel
Maybe
Offends
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Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
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Happily
Practical
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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
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Genre
Natural
Way
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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
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Isolation
Mistaken
Ought
Towers
Anything Else
For Example
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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
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Authors
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One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
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Bedrock
Conservation
Destroyed
Physics
Principles
Neither
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What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
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I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
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Demand
Inspire
Bold
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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Cactus
Geology
Gunpowder
Hawaii
Detail
Processes
Whaling
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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
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Faster
Unlucky
Author
Funny Thing
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Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
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Dependent
Viewers
Differ
Enriched
Merely
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The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.
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Book
Energy
Needs
Fatal
Fictional
Flaw
Ignoring
Sends
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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
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Deals
Empires
Science Fiction
Asteroid
Belt
Distant
Epics
Remote
Trips
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Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
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Binary
Data
Resisting
Opposite
Flipping
Randomly
Wee
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
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Consciousness
Defined
Experts
Agreed
Meaning Of
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I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.
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Age
Eight
Fans
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The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.
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Energy Sources
Patient
Bodies
Tap
Miracles
Sources
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The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
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Enriching
Expanding
New Knowledge
Established
Remaining
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Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
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Attempting
Backdrop
Breakthrough
Implications
Work Science Technology
Predict
Actual
Merely
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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Irony
Mainstream
Metaphor
Speech
Usage
Figure
Literally
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I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
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Physicist
Senior
Thirty
Vice President
Tech
Sf
Vice
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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
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Crime Fiction
Forensics
Historical Fiction
Describe
Procedure
Readers
Westerns
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