To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.
Robert ReedIn a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.
Robert ReedBefore I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
Robert ReedI've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
Robert Reed