Scott Hawkins
Hey Sinisha,
Interesting question.
I probably read more actual Sci-Fi than fantasy. I definitely did when I was a kid. But for whatever reason my head just doesn't seem to churn out science fiction stories.
The very first novel I ever finished writing (Mount Char is the fourth, or maybe fifth if you count false starts), was a crime thriller. But I noticed while I was writing it that it kept trying to skew into fantasy land. I decided to stop fighting it. All my books since that first have been fantasies.
My day job is as a programmer, and once or twice I've had ideas centered around surveillance technology and/or AI run amok. But because I deal with computers in my day job its sort of nice to think about other stuff in my off hours. (In that same vein, my buddy Alan Smale is an actual physicist at NASA, and he writes alternate history.) I like hard science stories of the Reynolds / Haldeman / Benford variety, but I'm not really enough of a physicist to credibly develop a more-or-less grounded one and I don't want to embarrass myself. :-)
I haven't read Redemption Ark, but I do like Reynolds. I totally get what you're saying about the "scale" thing--I love that too. I had just read Pushing Ice when I was working on Mount Char, and thinking about it may have colored some of what I did with the Library.
Interesting question.
I probably read more actual Sci-Fi than fantasy. I definitely did when I was a kid. But for whatever reason my head just doesn't seem to churn out science fiction stories.
The very first novel I ever finished writing (Mount Char is the fourth, or maybe fifth if you count false starts), was a crime thriller. But I noticed while I was writing it that it kept trying to skew into fantasy land. I decided to stop fighting it. All my books since that first have been fantasies.
My day job is as a programmer, and once or twice I've had ideas centered around surveillance technology and/or AI run amok. But because I deal with computers in my day job its sort of nice to think about other stuff in my off hours. (In that same vein, my buddy Alan Smale is an actual physicist at NASA, and he writes alternate history.) I like hard science stories of the Reynolds / Haldeman / Benford variety, but I'm not really enough of a physicist to credibly develop a more-or-less grounded one and I don't want to embarrass myself. :-)
I haven't read Redemption Ark, but I do like Reynolds. I totally get what you're saying about the "scale" thing--I love that too. I had just read Pushing Ice when I was working on Mount Char, and thinking about it may have colored some of what I did with the Library.
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Just a Comment? I absolutely enjoyed The Library at Mount Char, I think a sequel might be interesting but it is also a well written stand alone book. More then anything I am eager to see what other imaginings you will write. I am an excited fan and will purchase what ever your next book will be based on my opinion of this book.
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