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Kevin J. Anderson
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 27
,
1962
Book
People
Science
Think
Time
You
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My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
Kevin J. Anderson
Life
Mom
You
Freelance
Think
President
See
Seeking
Determined
Writer
Practical
Course
Very
Accountant
Bank
Just
Dad
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
Kevin J. Anderson
Great
Secret
Projects
Boring
Classified
Take
Great Secret
Look
Most
Behind
James
James Bond
Them
Uninteresting
Even
Utterly
Second
Bond
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson
War
Time
History
Big
Cold
Cold War
Minor
Russian
Had
Going
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
Kevin J. Anderson
Every
Lunch
Too
Would
Somehow
Write
Hour
Spare
Second
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
Kevin J. Anderson
Think
Something
Like
Up
Different
Titles
Now
Published
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
Kevin J. Anderson
Waiting
Imagination
Back
Once
Like
Ideas
Pile
Up
Getting
Just
Lit
Kept
Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
Kevin J. Anderson
You
Noise
Space
Air
Make
Course
Because
Any
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
Kevin J. Anderson
Politics
You
Science
Before
Sense
Too
Books
Kings
About
Feel
Like
Make
Course
Court
Making
Queens
Wanted
Explaining
Epic
Fantasy
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
Kevin J. Anderson
You
People
Alien
Insects
Build
Would
Had
Like
Look
Looked
Robots
Race
Themselves
Then
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
Kevin J. Anderson
Work
Remember
Somebody
Think
Make
Reader
Author
Much
Should
Who
Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
Book
Will
Like
Because
Lot
Each
I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
Kevin J. Anderson
Money
Stupid
Books
Knew
Make
Lot
Sell
Dune
Mean
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Kevin J. Anderson
You
Memory
Remember
Everything
Plug
Could
Head
Like
Look
Augmented
Up
Chip
Your
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
Kevin J. Anderson
Travel
Innovation
Space
Somebody
Think
Resources
Out
Idea
Come
Up
Going
Space Travel
Successful
Nowhere
Program
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
Kevin J. Anderson
Hope
You
People
Somewhere
Drive
Country
Ocean
Other
Some
Rather
Bottle
Put
Columbus
Like
Look
Most
Message
Go
American
Depends
Want
Whether
Lands
Across
Inhabitants
Who
Actual
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