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" Before I wrote 'God's War,' I probably did eight years of research into the Middle East, Judaism, Islam, Catholicisim, and all sorts of fabulous other things. "
Kameron Hurley
War
Islam
God
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" While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people. "
Kameron Hurley
Good And Evil
War
People
" Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind. "
Kameron Hurley
Limits
Imagination
Mind
" Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us. "
Kameron Hurley
Job
World
See
" Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash. "
Kameron Hurley
Feminism
Serious
Watching
" Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile. "
Kameron Hurley
Easy
Possible
New
" Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges. "
Kameron Hurley
Life
You
Writing
" When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay. "
Kameron Hurley
Okay
Way
See
" I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy. "
Kameron Hurley
Way
Tough
Think
" I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it. "
Kameron Hurley
Want
Genre
Create
" Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon. "
Kameron Hurley
King
Time
Obsession
" What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways. "
Kameron Hurley
Always
Book
Ideas
" Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. "
Kameron Hurley
How
Literature
Adapt
" I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway. "
Kameron Hurley
Cry
Forty
Night
" Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance. "
Kameron Hurley
Go
Conflict
You
" Many people don't even want to start something until they feel fairly confident that they will be a success at it. But me? I love to throw myself into things headfirst and fail all over the place. "
Kameron Hurley
Me
Success
Start
" The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature. "
Kameron Hurley
Reality
You
Start
" If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before. "
Kameron Hurley
Goal
Create
You
" We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones. "
Kameron Hurley
People
Love
Perfect
" I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don't screw it up too much. "
Kameron Hurley
Hope
Expectations
Change
" When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too. "
Kameron Hurley
Show
Mother
Her
" I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers. "
Kameron Hurley
Doors
Leave
Likes
" Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation. "
Kameron Hurley
Vision
Technology
Future
" I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have it all for it to work for me. "
Kameron Hurley
World
Writing
Strong
" Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that. "
Kameron Hurley
Up
Than
Magical
" It's easier to say people are crazy than to try to figure out why. "
Kameron Hurley
People
Crazy
Try
" Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one. "
Kameron Hurley
Book
Writing
Try
" As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus. "
Kameron Hurley
Science
Women
Future
" As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light. "
Kameron Hurley
Science
Light
Love
" I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together. "
Kameron Hurley
Revolution
Fun
Working
" I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed. "
Kameron Hurley
War
Always
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