Will McIntosh
Will McIntosh
Will McIntoshis a Hugo-Award-winning science fiction author. He has published dozens of short stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and Interzone. His stories are also frequently reprinted in different "Year's Best" anthologies. McIntosh's first two novels, Soft Apocalypse, and Hitchers were published by Night Shade Books in April 2011 and February 2012, respectively...
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CountryUnited States of America
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I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.
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I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
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My personal belief is that attraction to SF/F is coded right into your genes. I was attracted to monsters and robots as far back as I can remember.
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I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
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As a kid, I fell in love with the 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.' I don't know why. I liked the werewolf, Gamera, The Hulk, but I loved the Creature.
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I think we need time to digest this, but this is not the end of the road, so to speak.
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I think Americans will begin to see a rejuvenated Dan Quayle with great campaign skills, ... George Bush has done a good job of building interest, but now he has the tough job of rising to those expectations.
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I think it's symptomatic of how weak this economy really is. This tells us the slowdown is accelerating more than expected.
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Road claims like these have become the weapon of choice by modern-day sagebrush activists trying to wrest control from federal government. It's time to stop.
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Wherever I have gone in the last 18 years, people have always greeted me so warmly. They didn't always know exactly who I was, but they knew they knew me. They'd look at me and look at me and say, 'Oh, you're the sports guy.' I've always loved that.
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I was informed in early January that they had eliminated my job. Financially, times are very tight (at the station). We've made some big investments in the Broncos, Oprah Winfrey and the Web site. The way it was explained to me was that the station budget would no longer support a morning sports guy.
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When you get into major trouble, people become desperate,