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Cory Doctorow is literally the first author I met after I became a science fiction author — our mutual editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden paired us up at the 2003 World Science Fiction Convention, which took place in Cory’s then-hometown of Toronto.
If you had the misfortune to be on the Internet this week — and who among us was not, alas?
Nearly everyone who has been in science fiction over the last 60 years has a Harlan Ellison story, and I have two.
It’s less than an hour since the news broke that Ursula K.
Here is a very real and true thing: 2017 is making it really hard to be a science fiction writer.
As a writer of liberalish tendencies, and one with an active — meaning, loud — political and social presence online, I am often accused (particularly on Twitter, the Wild West of social media) of being a “coastal elite.â€
It’s not a great secret that Donald Trump and his incoming administration are not hugely beloved by America’s creative class — the difficulty Trump is having in finding performers for his inauguration is only the most obvious manifestation of this.
Out on the Internet, along with the many heart-touching tributes to Carrie Fisher, photographs of her as Leia Organa, either as princess (the original trilogy) or general (from “The Force Awakensâ€) and with her beloved French bulldog Gary, there’s another picture, originally placed there by cinema documentarian Will McCrabb, showing a page of the script of “The Empire Strikes Back.â€
Just a few days until the election, and a writer’s thoughts naturally turn to dystopias.
