This was amusing
Feb. 11th, 2011 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollPosted by Ed Treijs on rasfw:
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
>Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes, in the introduction to her collection
>"Recovering Apollo 8":
>
>"When I attended Clarion Writers Workshop in 1985, my fellow
>workshoppers told me to give up writing science fiction and to only
>write fantasy. According to them, I didn't have the background to
>write true science fiction, and I couldn't get that background without
>going back for an advanced degree in one of the sciences, something I
>didn't want to do."
He asks the reasonable question; what fields would be necessary for fantasy writers?
I, on the other hand, wonder just how widely read in the field is anyone who gave the above advice? Did they think it took a Ph.D. in physics to write Honor Harrington or years of research in the field of biology to come up with Protector?
