Post by missionhill on Feb 15, 2013 19:29:43 GMT -5
An incomplete list of influential writers:
1- Cory and Andrew thanks for the NBZ. I doubt I'd be able to write if the setting were not a futuristic Boston. I lived in Roxbury Crossing for a decade. Your framework is ever present. Apologies when I'm not sure how to credit your creations in the writing. Hey, is fan fiction and a rough drafts at that.
2- Neil Stephenson is a huge influence. Probably my largest one.
3- I find writing about the future incredibly difficult. What I shared today was noodling in my mind for about a month.
4- Philip K. Dick my other strongest influence. Especially "A Scanner Darkly" He writes about nutty druggy paranoid people. Love it.
5- I'm leaving out William Gibson because I haven't read enough of his stuff. I know it's like leaving Moses outta the bible but I never have been very religious.
6- I particularly want to point out two more recent novels:
"The City and the City" by China Mieville and "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
7- open question who do you read? If you like to write do you see any influences on your work?
8- If you see any of my fan fiction feel free to offer any editorial ideas and/or questions.
9- Lastly I read a lot of short stories, I like "hard" sci-fi meaning is very fact-based. I like dystopia works too... Brave New World, 1984 and A Clockwork Orange come to mind. A more full throttle sci-fi opera writer I enjoy is Neal Asher... he writes the Polity world books.
10 - Recently I finished " Ready Player One " I bet that's a good reason I began a story from POV of a kid.
1- Cory and Andrew thanks for the NBZ. I doubt I'd be able to write if the setting were not a futuristic Boston. I lived in Roxbury Crossing for a decade. Your framework is ever present. Apologies when I'm not sure how to credit your creations in the writing. Hey, is fan fiction and a rough drafts at that.
2- Neil Stephenson is a huge influence. Probably my largest one.
3- I find writing about the future incredibly difficult. What I shared today was noodling in my mind for about a month.
4- Philip K. Dick my other strongest influence. Especially "A Scanner Darkly" He writes about nutty druggy paranoid people. Love it.
5- I'm leaving out William Gibson because I haven't read enough of his stuff. I know it's like leaving Moses outta the bible but I never have been very religious.
6- I particularly want to point out two more recent novels:
"The City and the City" by China Mieville and "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
7- open question who do you read? If you like to write do you see any influences on your work?
8- If you see any of my fan fiction feel free to offer any editorial ideas and/or questions.
9- Lastly I read a lot of short stories, I like "hard" sci-fi meaning is very fact-based. I like dystopia works too... Brave New World, 1984 and A Clockwork Orange come to mind. A more full throttle sci-fi opera writer I enjoy is Neal Asher... he writes the Polity world books.
10 - Recently I finished " Ready Player One " I bet that's a good reason I began a story from POV of a kid.
