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A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Careers
Fiction
Forget
Get
Interest
Lot
Origin
People
Period
Real
Science
Science Fiction
Technical
War
World
World War
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A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Idea
Novel
Short
Soup
Story
Them
Whole
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A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Between
Distance
Novel
Points
Route
Short
Shortest
Shortest Distance
Story
Two
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A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Conditions
Entitled
He
He Or She
Muse
Need
Needs
Peace
Peace And Quiet
Perfect
Period
Quiet
She
Spot
Wait
Write
Writer
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All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Basically
Competitive
DNA
Intelligence
Made
Nasty
Necessarily
Passes
Species
Things
Us
Whatever
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An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an agnostic.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Agnostic
Being
Believes
Divine
Nature
Sense
Someone
Subscribe
Unknowable
Who
Willing
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Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Been
Brought
Consumed
Evening
Existed
Fiction
Guy
He
Instead
Like
Literature
Masses
Phenomenon
Places
Post
Published
Saturday
Science
Science Fiction
Secret
Who
Widely
Would
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By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Analog
Cover
Enviable
Fiction
Had
Magazine
Novels
Quite
Record
Science
Science Fiction
Stories
Three
Two
Words
World
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Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Delighted
Everything
Live
Multifaceted
Multimedia
Now
Part
Reality
World
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Everything that I can do to ground the story in reality helps make it harder for people to be dismissive of it.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Everything
Ground
Harder
Helps
I Can
Make
People
Reality
Story
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Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
About
Art
Art Form
Experiences
Fiction
Form
Getting
Heads
Lets
Other
People
Way
You
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George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Because
Classic
Come
Failed
Failure
Future
George
Helped
Nineteen
Pass
Predicted
Prevent
Rather
Success
Us
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Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Actually
Art
Characterization
Criticized
Either
Fiction
Hard
Having
I Write
Most
Often
Principles
Psychological
Psychology
Rightly
Science
Science Fiction
Studied
Unbelievable
Which
Write
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I am very pro-science.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Am
I Am
Very
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I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
About
After
Being
Book
Character
Frankly
Imagine
Out
Same
Series
Viewpoint
Writer
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I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Equal
Fiction
Genre
Give
Halves
Name
Really
Science
Two
Weight
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I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Behind
Charismatic
Compelling
Easy
Emergence
Figure
Follow
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Leaders
Line
Me
Narcissistic
People
Person
Question
Started
Understand
Up
Why
Wondering
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I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Bad
Evaluation
Good
I Think
Indifferent
Most
People
Think
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I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
About
Always
Been
Being
Degree
Fiction
General
General Public
Has-Been
I Think
Judged
Literature
Misunderstanding
Prediction
Public
Science
Science Fiction
Some
Think
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I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Advance
Book
Each
Economic
First
Got
In Other Words
Itself
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Novel
Other
Paid
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