Edward M. Lerner
Edward M. Lerner
Edward M. Lerneris an American author of science fiction, techno-thrillers, and popular science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.
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What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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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.
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.