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One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

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Katie Kitamura

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There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column’s been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I’ve already got it set up so that they’ll ring someone else first – because I don’t want to be given that news when I’m walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.

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There’s a long relationship between science fiction and the ‘novel of ideas,’ and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

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May 3, 2024

There’s a long relationship between science fiction and the ‘novel of ideas,’ and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

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May 3, 2024

There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column’s been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I’ve already got it set up so that they’ll ring someone else first – because I don’t want to be given that news when I’m walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.

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