I always figure I can have the Midwest one way or the other. Because it's my background, it ought to be a voice that comes easily.
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
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