Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Andersonis an American science fiction author with over 50 bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequel series. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award-nominated Assemblers of Infinity. He has also written several comic books, including the Dark Horse Star Wars collection Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Dark...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 March 1962
CountryUnited States of America
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.