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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
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When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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