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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
Laugh if you will ... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.
I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo ... " It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
