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" But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. "
Situation
Fantasy
World
" Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. "
You
Physics
University
" Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women. "
Women
Things
Open
" I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. "
Brain
Stories
Different
" I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. "
I Can
Good
Emotional
" I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along. "
I Can
Model
Go
" I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up. "
Like
Up
Course
" I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. "
Love
Science
You
" In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. "
Character
Take
Perceptions
" I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? "
Why
Like
Bother
" It 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. "
Far
Way
Science
" It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long. "
Single
Character
Hard
" I used to not back down from a challenge. "
Down
Back
Challenge
" I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir. "
Taught
Choir
School
" I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. "
Writing
Finishing
Fiction
" My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. "
Second
First
Degree
" My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. "
Way
World
Connected
" No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. "
Cello
Perfect
Bass
" Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind. "
Now
Her
Enough
" One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. "
Biology
Science
Degrees
" Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. "
Brilliant
Rich
Me
" So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. "
Got
Work
Texas
" There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. "
Person
Old
Fantasy
" When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. "
Find
Interesting
Myself
" When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. "
Up
Young
Working
" When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. "
Starting
Well
Write
" You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. "
Past
You
Real
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