"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust."

Work, Diversity

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"I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust."

Work, Diversity

"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."

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"It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction."

Science, Fiction, Writing

"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."

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"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."

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"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

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"I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending."

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"I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life."

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"Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books."

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