Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
Sarah ZettelI have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
Sarah ZettelI have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Sarah ZettelI did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.
Sarah Zettel