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The truth is that there are, at any given time, a whole lot more books I don’t want to read than books I do.
Life’s a cycle of romance, drugs and sex, no wonder people are killing themselves in droves.
heh.
Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?” Harriet Vane asks Lord Peter Wimsey in Sayers’s Gaudy Night. I have to reply with him: “So easily that, to tell the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.”)
The existence of all those unread books feels like a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, like magic. It never quite feels like something I can rely on.
I called it an American fantasy, but what I mean is that it’s a regional American fantasy. I think the reason there isn’t one “American fantasy” is because America is so big. So there are regional fantasies like this and like Perfect Circle, and there are road trip fantasies like Talking Man and American Gods, and they have the sense of specific places in America but not the whole country because the whole country isn’t mythologically one thing. I might be wrong—it isn’t my country. But that’s how it feels.
Twenty years ahead is one of the most difficult times to write.
Heinlein gets far more hassle for his female characters than Clarke or Asimov, because Heinlein was actually thinking about women and having female characters widely visible.
