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
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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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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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So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own.
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Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman.
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Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre.
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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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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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I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
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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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I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.
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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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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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Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.