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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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
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Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
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I like to do things that are surprising and different.
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I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
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If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
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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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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
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One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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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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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
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Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
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