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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
