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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
I'm interested in all the new ideas, such as 3-D and widescreen, but I don't believe the technical method of presentation is the real important thing.
I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
