Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Eric Brownis a former American film and television actor. Brown is best known for his role as Phillip Fillmore in the 1981 coming of age film Private Lessons and as Vinton "Buzz" Harper, Jr. in the syndicated American sitcom Mama's Family...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 December 1964
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I find it hard to take straight fantasy, as I don't believe in magic or the occult, and hard SF leaves me cold because I don't like reading pages and pages of science or scientific extrapolation at the expense of characters and emotion.
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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
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The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
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The music is really bigger than us, because it did have an impact on people. This is something we can have forever. It doesn't have to be the same struggling band situation, which is hard to maintain.
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I don't write hard SF - that is, technology-driven science fiction. I don't read this stuff, either. I like to read, and to write, SF about people, the consequences of technological and social change on individuals or groups of individuals. Fantasy and hard SF aren't about these things.
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People hate the commercialization of the holidays. They are looking for a better quality of life, not more stuff. We've done the survey for the past four years, and the results are fairly consistent.
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There's lots of competition, but there are limited spots to fill,
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Microsoft wants to own the real estate even of the AOL members,
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You'll be less likely to be in the middle of a food fight between your doctor and your insurance company.
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It does appear that I've been doing nothing but scribbling, but some of the books were written a while back, and have only just gone into print.
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From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,
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If AOL is out to reach a really broad market, my guess is this is about a new Internet appliance in the home that would connect to your TV, that this has more to do with a set-top box and less to do with computers,
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If AOL isn't at the table and an active participant in a bunch of people making standards -- that in many ways don't matter.
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I felt I found something I was good at.