Edward M. Lerner
Edward M. Lerner
Edward M. Lerneris an American author of science fiction, techno-thrillers, and popular science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting.
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
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Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
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One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.