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Why in Blazes Do We Write?

Why in Blazes Do We Write?

On finishing the next novel in a deeply troubled world

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Jan 12, 2024
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Pericles witnessing the death of his son due to the Plague of Athens by François Chifflart

Over the last year, I’ve gained many new subscribers who might not be as familiar with my fiction—which is fair. I published science fiction stories for years in magazines like Analog and Clarkesworld, but when I took a novel to market during the height of pandemic, my retelling of The Brothers Karamazov as a science fiction tale gained great praise for…

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