Not directly related, but io9 ran an interview with Wolfe today:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime">http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-Matt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, David Duffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidD@qimr.edu.au">davidD@qimr.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Wolfe gave a brief response to a questionnaire sent out to writers by Barbara Bengels ("The Care and Feeding of Science Fiction Writers"):<br>
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A formative moment in which you decided to become a writer? "There was none..." Roommate asked GW to contribute stories to the student magazine<br>
so he could illustrate them.<br>
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And specifically SF? "I have never considered myself an sf writer, just a writer who writes some sf."<br>
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and on encouraging the young<br>
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"There was a little kid over on Banks Street who borrowed my sf magazines after I had read them. His name was John Cramer, and he bacame a nuclear physicist [and SF writer]". Not a story I had heard before.<br>
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Cheers, David Duffy,<br>
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