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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writin

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler

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Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules youve set. But if youre writing about science, you have to first learn what youre writing about. – Octavia Butler

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

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What Im working on now – Im back to fantasy, although considering that its me, Im turning it into a kind of science fantasy. Its a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didnt become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way. – Octavia Butler

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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. Thats the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We dont talk about football or anything like that. – Kevin J. Anderson

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