Goodreads asked K.G. Powderly Jr.:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

K.G. Powderly Jr. View what you write as a form of service. Storytellers and history teachers (if they are good at it) give people a sense of the past--even if they are science fiction writers writing about the future. History is weirder (and often more marvelous) than fiction. Frank Herbert pulled his Dune novels from history--it was the struggles of the Arabian desert tribesmen against the Ottoman Empire writ large in space, with giant sand worms thrown in for fun.

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