"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."

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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."

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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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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

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"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."

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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."

"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."

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