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
author faster funny future
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.
believe bold continue faith future inspire public sf writers
I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.
hard sf
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.
believe forgotten humanity
I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.
began computer engineer full high hobby physicist scientist senior sf tech thirty time vice worked
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.
asteroid deals distant fiction future lots remote science trips
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.
bedrock created neither nor principles
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
book rooms energy
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.
eight age sputnik
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.
way natural genre
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.
writing scope length
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.
epic wander interstellar
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.