I see Younger Sister seething with raw energy that has not yet translated into destructive action. Despite her poor opinion of her sister, she does not want to do anything she considers wrong.
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Loaning a cup of sugar is one of those banal things that neighbors do for one another–or at least promise to do for one another. I wanted to find something prosaic to balance out the surreal events of the story.
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Many people today believe in the existence of the ifriit, so when I wrote “The Seal of Sulaymaan”, I tried to make the supernatural elements consistent with these beliefs—what djinn eat, where they live, what they can do.
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Eagles are solitary and the dragons flock. I don’t know how multiple animals flying in a circle would affect the wind–would it hinder flight or help it?
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I read the Foundation novels so long ago that I can only remember disconnected bits and scenes, but I was enchanted with Seldon’s psychohistory. I love to play with systems, and the idea of one so complex and nuanced that it could predict entire zeitgeists was fantastic—in both the “wonderful” and “fantasy-like” senses of the term.
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I’ve done a fair amount of traveling, but everything people had been telling me about India turned out to be true, and I’ve never been anywhere that challenged me or inspired me so much in such a short time.
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I wanted to show what life feels like for the children of the men and women in the Army. I can’t say if it’s the same for everyone or for the other armed services, but I’m pretty sure it’s close.
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Slaves in America clung to their music as a way of believing there would be a better day, a day of freedom. “The Slavesinger” came out of my awareness and respect for that history.
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This story is based in a world setting I’ve been working on for years. I have novels planned in that world, and this story would be relatively ancient history by the time the first novel starts.
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It’s been very exciting—there’s a definite sense of people interacting with each other now, of a lot more openness. It’s telling that a lot of our visitors to the blog now are not from North America, but from mainland Europe and from Asia. People are bypassing the American SF scene to some extent, and talk to each other instead.
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