Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
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