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When I Was A Child, Science Fiction Was The First Source I've Found For Information. Science Fiction Was A Very Very Low Cultural Stream In Those Days. It Was Completly Below The Radar And No One Bothered To Censurate It.

In Effect, I Grew Up In A Sort Of Timewarp, A Place Where Times Are Scrambled Up. There Are Elements Of My Childhood That Look To Me Now, In Memory More Like The 1940s Or The 1950s Than The 1960s. Jack [womack] Says That That Made Us Science Fiction Writers, Because We Grew Up Experiencing A Kind Of Time Travel.

Futurists Get To A Certain Age And, As One Does, They Suddenly Recognize Their Own Mortality.

Tim Powers Is A Brilliant Writer.

The Future Is There... Looking Back At Us. Trying To Make Sense Of The Fiction We Will Have Become.