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Edwin H. Rydberg

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I’ve had my head in space ever since I saw the original Star Wars in the cinema as an impressionable eight-year-old. For a while, I thought I might like to build giant robots, or travel into outer space, or unravel the secrets of life. But I’ve found that writing science fiction allows me to do all three.

I mostly write YA SF because it allows me to explore the extremes of wonder and horror of the changing world through the eyes of people who are new to it (yet somehow still managed to be jaded –> teens, go figure!). I've also started the Alternate Futures Podcast where I feature interviews with independent science fiction creators.

Pre-pandemic, I used to regularly attend UK SF conventions. Now I’m working on starting some online ones (that ...more

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“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
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