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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.

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