Sarah Zettel
Sarah Zettel
Sarah Zettelis an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 December 1966
CountryUnited States of America
fantasy lord standards
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
brilliant butlers disturbing
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
guilt expansion glory
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
strong character plot
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
fiction stories novelists
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
character mind stories
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
thinking would-be expansion
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.
thinking fantasy range
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
peers matter males
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.