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FOR WRITERS

Nuts, Bolts & Laughs

August 4, 2011
Tags: Science-Fiction humor
There are many works that helped me along the road to authorhood, but the first of these was Harry Harrison's BILL THE GALACTIC HERO. I had been in the Army and was an avid science-fiction reader, and BILL satirizes both. I laughed until I hurt, and when I was finished reading Harry's book, I said to myself, "If you can make a living writing this kind of stuff, that's what I want to do." As it turned out, I didn't write that kind of stuff; I wrote my kind of stuff. Turned out to be a good move in any event.

What works moved you into writing? Into Science-fiction? Fantasy?
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Barry B. Longyear is the first writer to win the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine Series, his works include the Circus World and Infinity Hold series, Sea of Glass, other SF & fantasy novels, recovery and writing instruction works, and numerous short stories.

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