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Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 QUOTES

Nebula Awards Showcase 2008 QUOTES

1 " Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven’t been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer. "

― Ben Bova , Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

2 " So I started to wonder if I actually could reenter the unicorn’s world…at which point Sooz came into my head and the story just happened. It flowed. It was the exact opposite of my experience writing The Last Unicorn. I locked onto her voice, the voice of this nine-and-a-half-year-old girl who was telling the story from the first sentence, and I just followed her. It was one of the very rare occasions where I felt from beginning to end that I knew what I was doing. "

― Ben Bova , Nebula Awards Showcase 2008

3 " suffice it to say that after accidently setting the Walden woods ablaze—some estimates hold that more than three hundred acres were consumed—our First Naturalist repaired to the top of Fair Haven Hill to admire his own private conflagration. I thought folks ought to know about this. You see, as a student I was force-fed Walden and much of it disagreed with me. I will admit that never has the Luddite point of view been advanced quite so eloquently. And while I agree that simplicity can be a virtue and that cultivation of one’s inner resources is necessary for the good life, it seems clear to me that the habit of thought which Thoreau urges on us is antithetical to the enterprise of science fiction. "

― Ben Bova , Nebula Awards Showcase 2008