Elizabeth Moon

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ”

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ”

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ”

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. ”

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. ”

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. ”

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is. ”

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. ”