Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.Joan D. Vinge
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Joan D. Vinge
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Joan D. Vinge
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Joan D. Vinge
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Joan D. Vinge
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