9/6/2023 0 Comments Things fThat kind of development can only ever happen through experience. The way I write the outline and plot structure now is certainly more sophisticated than it was when I approached Mindstar Rising , my first book. I’d like to think I’ve learned a lot about the whole process of novel writing in all that time. You've been publishing bestselling science fiction books for more than twenty years now, how have things changed for you as a writer in that time? Then there was a trip to Iceland, where a friend took me driving over a glacier for research on how vehicles behave in those conditions, plenty of which made it into the book. Seeing how they’d changed was also a masterclass in extrapolation, which is one of the basics of worldbuilding. My father’s family comes from Newcastle, so it was nice revisiting places I knew from childhood. I spent several days in Newcastle finding real locations to fit the story. If we’re including the research part of writing then it has to be Great North Road. Which of your books have you most enjoyed writing? You expect me to remember a precise fact from that far back? I do know I read EE Doc Smith and Clarke and Heinlein within a very short space of time. What was the first science fiction book you ever read? I think it also developed a more critical attitude when it came to looking at the world around me. Doubly so for space opera, which got you even further away from life on Earth. It was the sheer escapism of the genre, allowing a 1970s teenager to get out of what was a fundamentally drab world (apart from the music, obviously, it was a great era for music). What first drew you to science fiction, and specifically to space opera? As to why science fiction, it was the genre I enjoyed reading the most, so in my mind that was the obvious field to write in. Writing was always something I'd considered doing, the idea (impulse?) to start grew steadily during my twenties, so I eventually went out and bought a typewriter. How did you get into writing, and why science fiction?
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