http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/archives/005434.html Comments for the entry "Science Fiction Is Not a Literature of Ideas" en-us Movable Type v3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:00:13 -06:00 Food for thought, Jeremy, and thanks. The importance of character is one of those things that it's easy to know at an intellectual level, but to actually *use* it as a writer (or, as you say, a reader) is a different thing entirely. I was much enamoured of that Ted Chiang collection, and I only wish he'd write more.

]]> 5434@http://www.tuginternet.com/jeremy/#c78214 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:00:13 -06:00 The article that helped me out of my "ideas-only" slump was Robert J. Sawer's On Writing series. Especially the one that points out that most science fiction characters are robots.

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