Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
Elizabeth MoonIt may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
Elizabeth MoonWhen I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Elizabeth MoonIn a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.
Elizabeth MoonEven if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.
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