Perhaps This Will Suck

And perhaps it won't

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I wanted to be a novelist. I still do. When I was thirty, I wrote an entire science fiction novel that will never see the light of day. It was bad.

In 2005 I took a science fiction writing course at the Banff Centre with Rob Sawyer. We’ve been friends ever since. It was life-changing for me, because the thing I talked …