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James E. Gunn

American Writer

Born: 1923

Character Expedition Good Science Work You

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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James E. Gunn

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It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass. James E. Gunn

Life Work Time Single Out Some True Longer Over Ideas Period Also Encompass Than Human Themselves Human Life Naturally

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. James E. Gunn

Service Rather Narrative Replace Than Story Prefer Them Bring

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published. James E. Gunn

Good You Adequately Recognize Some Give Could Had Participants Merit Names Editor Been Being Who Many Workshop Published Right

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. James E. Gunn

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