Category: Inspiration
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Inspiration: Gideon the Ninth
A recent read that inspired my sci-fi writing was Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, a book about lesbian necromancers in space. As I read the book, questions kept occuring to me, like ‘why are they using swords in space?’ While most of the questions were eventually answered, this particular one was left with a…
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Inspiration: Martha Wells
Martha Wells recently became one of my favorite authors. She has been publishing books for the past 30 years, mostly covering fantasy and sci-fi, but I didn’t hear about her until the more recent success of Murderbot Diaries. The Murderbot Diaries started as a series of novellas that follow a self-aware SecUnit (android) on a…
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Inspiration: Andy Weir
If you know who Andy Weir is, it’s likely because of the film, The Martian, which is based on his book. What many people don’t know is that he was a programmer and self-publishing author of fanfiction before he became a best-seller. In fact, he self-published The Martian before hitting it big. He is the…
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Inspiration: Tobias Wolff
Short stories are a love of mine, both to read and to write. My all time favorite short story author is Tobias Wolff. I’ve read over a dozen of his pieces and continue to use his work as an inspiration and model for my own. “Our Story Begins” is an excellent collection with some of…
Grant Pearson 