John M. Ford
John M. Ford
John Milo "Mike" Fordwas an American science fiction and fantasy writer, game designer, and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 April 1957
CountryUnited States of America
writing ideas want
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
adventure culture stories
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
lost
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged
reality play long
I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.
allow happening reader
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
answer cynical deal expect far future good
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.