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Elizabeth Moon

"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."

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"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."

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Amber Hurdle

"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."

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"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

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Amber Hurdle

"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

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"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
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Elizabeth Moon
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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Elizabeth Moon
"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
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Elizabeth Moon
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
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"I used to not back down from a challenge."
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Elizabeth Moon
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
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"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
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