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PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Gardner Dozois: The Good Stuff
locusmag.com - 11/28/2008
PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Gardner Dozois: The Good Stuff
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Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview. Nobody writes short fiction to get rich, or even to make a decent living. Short fiction in particular has always been a labor of love. People write it because they want to read short fiction, and they write the kind of stuff ...
PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Greg Bear: The Universal Library
locusmag.com - 11/27/2008
PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Greg Bear: The Universal Library
— locusmag.com — Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview. In City at the End of Time , I'm paying... homage to writers who, in their greatest days, transformed science fiction and fantasy, going back to George D. MacDonald and Lewis Carroll, ... (more) PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Greg Bear: The Universal Library

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PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Paul Melko: Infinite Ohio
locusmag.com - 11/30/2008
PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Paul Melko: Infinite Ohio
— locusmag.com — Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview. In Have Spacesuit - Will Travel , main character Kip... Russell uses a slide rule to calculate how long it takes to get to Pluto, and it sort of blew my mind that you can actually figure ... (more) PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Paul Melko: Infinite Ohio

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SF Tidbits for 11/28/08
SF Signal — ... Locus Magazine has posted and interview excerpt with editor Gardner Dozois: "Although SF is leaking into mainstream fiction and mainstream is leaking back, you can still tell whether or not something is core science fiction, if you care to make that distinction in the first place." ...

Hooray For Graying Science Fiction Fans (and authors, artists and editors…)
The Crotchety Old Fan — Gardner Dozois has now been elevated to HERO status over here in crotchety land. There will be a parade. Gardner gets interviewed over at Locus and has some absolutely WONDERFUL things to say: “I try to hold the line in the distinction between science fiction and everything else when I edit The Year’s Best Science Fiction series. That distinction doesn’t mean a whole lot to some people anymore, but I have this naive feeling that if it says ‘The Year’s Best Science Fiction’ on the cover it should (mostly at least) have science fiction in it. It is old-fashioned. Although SF is ...

How Dangerous Is A Little Knowledge? [Quotes Of The Day]
io9 — ... "It's actually harder to write science fiction, because you have to know more. I've never been a hard science fiction writer, but even writing a non-hard science fiction story you have to know a lot more about science and the world and how things work than you do to write a fantasy." — Veteran SF editor Gardner Dozois, interviewed in Locus. ...

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