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There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space.

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I’m a genre writer – I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I’m not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write ‘core SF’ – it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it’s not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

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I think the danger with using the term ‘trilogy’ is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader’s mind.

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April 21, 2024

I think the danger with using the term ‘trilogy’ is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader’s mind.

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April 21, 2024

I’m a genre writer – I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I’m not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write ‘core SF’ – it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it’s not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

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