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" I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. "

Richard K. Morgan

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" Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling. "

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" Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving. "

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" With a game, you're only one part of a team, and what emerges at launch is very much the culmination of the whole team's efforts. You can be proud of playing your part, but it doesn't ever belong to you. "

Richard K. Morgan

" Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. "

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" I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. "

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" For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. "

Richard K. Morgan

" Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed. "

Richard K. Morgan

" As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems to access something dark and true in us that other modes of fiction are often a bit prissy about touching. But the key to making it work as time and culture moves on is to use the elasticity, not just the power. "

Richard K. Morgan

" The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. "

Richard K. Morgan

" As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002. "

Richard K. Morgan

" Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch. "

Richard K. Morgan

" There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience. "

Richard K. Morgan

" I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults. "

Richard K. Morgan

" A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely. "

Richard K. Morgan

" Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about. "

Richard K. Morgan

" In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time. "

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