{"id":47,"date":"2007-08-21T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=47"},"modified":"2007-08-21T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:09:00","slug":"back-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it’s kind of official \u2014 my short story “The Eyes of God” is going to appear in that Solaris<\/a> anthology I was cringeing<\/a> about the other day. <\/span>Dave Nickle thinks it comes a wee bit close to being pro-pedophile, but hey \u2014 at least I’m officially writing again. <\/span>I wonder if NAAMBLA publishes fiction…<\/p>\n

More Questions from the Queue:<\/p>\n

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  1. romripper: have you ever written a book, and at the end thought it was rubbish and started again? <\/i><\/span><\/i><\/i> I always think a book is rubbish when I’m finished. <\/span>Except for Starfish<\/i><\/i>. <\/span>Unfortunately, I’ve never had time to start again, because every book (except, again, Starfish<\/i><\/i>) has been written under deadline. <\/span>There’s a famous quote \u2014 offhand, I can’t remember the attribution \u2014 to the effect that we writers never finish a story. <\/span>We only abandon them.<\/li>\n
  2. ^*(\u011e\u00d8\u00e3+)*^\u0126\u20ac\u039b\u039b\u0407~\u250c\u2566\u2564\u2500: have you ever gotten sort of “attatched” to some of your characters and not wanted to end the story?<\/i><\/i> <\/span>I got kind of attached to Lenie Clarke. <\/span>That was Tor’s fault, actually; I had originally killed her off at the end of Starfish, but my editor thought that was too much of a downer ending for an American audience, so I had to keep her going. <\/span>Which led to two sequels. <\/span>I rather like the way Lenie’s arc progressed throughout the course of those books, although I know at least one guy who laments her metamorphosis from bad-ass to pussy in Behemoth<\/i><\/i>.<\/li>\n
  3. Quinion: What profession did you want to be in when you were growing up?<\/i><\/i> <\/span>Marine biologist, and science fiction writer. <\/span>I kid you not. <\/span>I even remember the moments at which those ambitions sunk in: <\/span>I was five when I decided I wanted to be a marine biologist, and I was seven when I decided I wanted to be a writer. <\/span>In hindsight, given my obvious ability to stick with goals long-term, I probably should have just decided to be rich. <\/span>But noooooo.<\/li>\n
  4. .:>TN<:M\u00fc\u00d0V\u00aa\u00a5\u00d1\u00ea9\u00b3\u2122: has a dream u've had at night given u an idea for a book ?<\/span> <\/span>Once, long ago, I dreamed of a perfect engineering solution to the problem of putting feet on beachballs so that they could walk autonomously. <\/span>I still remember that solution to this day. <\/span>Sadly, I have been unable to interest anyone in any story in which beachballs with feet play any kind of role. <\/span>Prejudice and intolerance still thrive, even in these supposedly enlightened times.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Next time, maybe some gaming questions. And no, I will not<\/span> be handing out her phone number.<\/p>\n

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    I guess it’s kind of official \u2014 my short story “The Eyes of God” is going to appear in that Solaris anthology I was cringeing about the other day. Dave Nickle thinks it comes a wee bit close to being pro-pedophile, but hey \u2014 at least I’m officially writing again. I wonder if NAAMBLA publishes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}