Quotes
Kevin J. Anderson
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
Kevin J. Anderson
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
We need to have a regular commerce between the surface of the Earth and at least near-Earth orbit from which we can build other things and send them to the Moon or further. It's the stepping stone. You have to have it.
Kevin J. Anderson
We are always going to get stuck on needing oil and it's always going to seem unfair to us that the most valuable resource in the world is buried under this ugly bunch of sand duness out in the middle of countries where the people have cultures and religions that we don't understand.
Kevin J. Anderson
Today, we're walking around with Palm Pilots. What if we could just implant the Palm Pilot so we could just access the stuff instantaneously? That's I think. It won't be giant robots standing there with bullwhips.
Kevin J. Anderson
This was somewhat of a surprise to me, but a lot of people picked up our books first without ever having read Dune.
Kevin J. Anderson
This forest is like a gigantic library or databank, and they can tap into it to get any information they want. Because all these trees are interconnected.
Kevin J. Anderson
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson
The thing that makes something classified in a document is a number after a decimal point on a table on page 43 of a 300-page document because it has something to do with a nuclear cross-section or something like that. There aren't folders full of stuff like secret stealth airplanes that are being built in Area 51 or something like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
The science fiction community is like a small, tightly-knit dysfunctional family. We all either know each other or have mutual friends. So it's not really hard to get in touch with someone.