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One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.
