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
epic wander interstellar
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
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.
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.
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.
differ enriched merely particular readers totally viewers
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
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.
authors surprising
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
mistaken ought
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
appreciate readers
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
challenge expanding fun future gone history knowledge lies remaining true
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.
agreed basic build experts hard human terms
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.