James Nicoll Quotes on Writing
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A lot of my stories end with 'And when I regained consciousness, there was a crowd standing around looking at me.'
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About Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier: Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.
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About James Clemens's Wit'ch Storm: 'Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.'
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Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
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I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.
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[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.