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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms review
This book ate one whole day out of last weekend. I could not put it down. I thought I’d read a couple chapters before bed—I ended up reading 14. The next day, I finished it. Literally did not do anything except sleep and eat breakfast between both readings. If that’s not an endorsement of how…
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Extrapolating the Future
In college, I wrote a story called “Sweet Dreams” about a girl who meets her clone. My science fiction and fantasy writing instructor’s major critique: It didn’t seem very futuristic. Other than cloning technology, I hadn’t extrapolated how other technologies might change in the future. A lack of extrapolation isn’t always a problem, of course. In…
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A Quandary
The last time I mentioned my goals, I said I hoped to avoid rewriting my near-future science fiction novel The Century. Unfortunately, over the past few weeks, it’s become clear that’s exactly what it needs. I first began the concept of The Century in 2003. (See my timeline on Facebook.) In 2009, I revisited it,…