I have a new interview posted at the Nebula Awards website. Thanks to Charles Tan for offering me the opportunity, and to Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for asking great questions. I enjoyed the chance to talk about “Dangerous Space.”
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I have a new interview posted at the Nebula Awards website. Thanks to Charles Tan for offering me the opportunity, and to Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for asking great questions. I enjoyed the chance to talk about “Dangerous Space.”
You are so articulate. I bet you have given this a lot of thought(ha ha). The word passionate occurs every other word from manyof your interviewers. To me it means bubbles with complex ideas and feelings and sizzles with sex. What do you think?
Feelings for sure. I think that when someone characterizes me as “passionate” about my work, they mean that I am emotionally…. hmm, what’s the right word? Connected, invested in the work. I care very much about the characters and their stories, and I am finding more and more that I want to tell stories about urgent moments in life, about feelings that are big (even if it’s in an everyday situation). I don’t write Big Ideas so much as I write Big Feelings. That is, apparently, worthy of comment, at least in speculative fiction circles.
My privileging of feelings over technology/science content is the reason that I will fall over sideways if “Dangerous Space” actually wins the Nebula Award (grin). I’m really pleased that it was voted onto the preliminary/final ballots. But I’m pretty sure I know the SFWA voting audience well enough to know that DS isn’t science fictional enough for many of them. I happen to think that what Mars brings to the party is very speculative, but I don’t necessarily expect the voters to agree (and it’s their award, they get to give it to whomever pleases them).
We’ll see. Either way, it’s a good and fine thing.