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Robert Reed (born John Robert Rietz Jr.; October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American actor.

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In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

Couple, Cutting, Effort, Unfair, Part, Snooze

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Book, Farewell, Novel, Reading, Science, Terms

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Century, Fiction, Level, Levels, Science, Thought

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

Book, Boys, Indian, Screen, Space

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

Experiment, Eye, Like, Self, Years

I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.

Distance, Character, Past, Simple, Allows, Long

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

Burden, Imagine, Places, Wonderful

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

Conventions, Eccentric, Fiction, Jobs, Member, Nebraska

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

Entrepreneur, Community, Together, Learns, Learn, Communities

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Entrepreneur, Community, Working Together, Enlarging, Small, Groups

I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

Thinking, Imagination, Doe, Things, Awful

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Bystanders, Delicious, Next, Page, Pages, Watching

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but. . . how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

Know, Needs, Opponent, Player, Win, Winning

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing. . . . I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

Careers, Creating, Coral Reefs, Business, Plenty, Like

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

Littles, Way, Needed, Single, Survive