Sarah Zettel

(4 votes)   I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

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(3 votes)   My father was a major SF fan in the '40s and '50s, so the house was full of SF books. That's where I got my start and I never looked back.

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(2 votes)   My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

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(4 votes)   Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

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(4 votes)   All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

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(4 votes)   As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

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(4 votes)   Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

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(4 votes)   First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

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(4 votes)   Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

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(4 votes)   I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

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(4 votes)   I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.

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(4 votes)   I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

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(4 votes)   I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

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(4 votes)   Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

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(3 votes)   The hard part about questions like this is that SF covers such a broad spectrum. There are so many authors who are good at so many different things.

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