Author: Edward M. Lerner

Quotes

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

- Edward M. Lerner

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

- Edward M. Lerner

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

- Edward M. Lerner

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

- Edward M. Lerner

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

- Edward M. Lerner

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