Ask the Author: Scott Coon
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Scott Coon
I consume a lot of entertainment in different forms, including documentaries. It is amazing what astronomers and physicists have achieved just in recent years. For example, they found a star that was killed by its twin, turning it into a 37,000 mile wide planet made of diamond. Our galaxy contains amazing things that we humans have yet to imagine.
Scott Coon
You can work anywhere...and you can create anything.
Scott Coon
I am currently working on three novels and a few short stories.
Scott Coon
My ideas often come from asking the question, "Yeah, but what next?" Terraforming is a recurring concept in science fiction, like in James S. A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes, but what happens when the planet is done? How does humanity go about populating it? The world of Lost Helix is my answer to that question. Another source of inspiration was the video game Sid Meier's Civilization. Every time I built the domed spaceship bound for Alpha Centauri, I wondered what would become of it after the colonists stripped it for parts and left its remains in orbit. In Lost Helix, I give my science victory colony ships a second life as a farm, feeding the miners of Stone River.
Scott Coon
Learn. Learn the art. Learn the business. Then assume that everything changed while you weren't looking and learn it all again. Modern readers are different from just twenty years ago. Learn what publishers and readers want now, both in content and presentation. But not in trend.
Scott Coon
I wrote a paper called "Overcoming Writer’s Block…The Programmer’s Way". It is available on my website at: scottcoonscifi.com/OnWriting.html
Scott Coon
Star Trek. I want to live in a world without money, where people work for self-satisfaction and betterment of society. I would travel the universe and, of course, write reto-science fiction.
Scott Coon
At the moment, I am reading DarkEden by Chris Beckett. Next will be The Savior's Champion by Jenna Moreci.
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