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L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn’t look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was ‘The Great American Economy.’

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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that’s because we’re all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

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May 5, 2024

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that’s because we’re all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

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May 5, 2024

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

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