I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I’m involved with, for reasons that probably don’t need a lot of explanation. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we’ve never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
There’s a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn’t. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
In my own life, I’ve seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it’s the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Read Quote
