A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
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Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
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Even if I have no trouble producing new work for another 40 years, the publishing industry is sure to go through some major upheavals.
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Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.
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I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
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I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
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I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
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I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.
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I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
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I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
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