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| James Gunn
A few years ago, a fellow professor stopped at my door and said, You're here in your office more than my full-time colleagues, and I replied, Writers don't retire, they just go out of print. With electronic publication, even that doesn't have to happen. In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one. What you call the Golden Age tradition of stringing stories together into novels was not so much a tradition as a consequence of the fact that almost no genre SF novels were published between 1926 and 1946. |
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