Sarah Zettel
Sarah Zettel
Sarah Zettelis an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 December 1966
CountryUnited States of America
american-author bones concert dance halloween performance short watching
Once, I got an idea for a short story during a Halloween concert while watching someone play the bones during the performance of Dance Macabre.
fiction stories novelists
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
strong character plot
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
guilt expansion glory
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
brilliant butlers disturbing
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
summer college tea
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
ideas creating use
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
doors way next
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
daughter crazy dust
Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.
hard-work ideas stories
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
stories invasion alien-life
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
peers matter males
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.
phases feels right-now
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
california born sacramento
I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.