But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
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Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.
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I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.
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I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
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I used to not back down from a challenge.
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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
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