Ask the Author: Keith F. Goodnight
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Keith F. Goodnight
He would have taken precautions but he was sure the serum would not affect spiders. His last thought as he died was, "I was wrong."
Keith F. Goodnight
That's a difficult question: most fictional worlds are places full of danger and dramatic conflict. They're great to read about but I wouldn't want to live there. I'd only want to if I was sure I could pick a time other than the stories I've read, some nice quiet time in between. So, I'd love to sight-see the magnificent architecture of Minas Tirith in Middle-earth, but wouldn't want to be there while Sauron's armies are laying siege to it!
If I was actually going to throw myself into an adventure... well, there can't be any doubt: I'd travel to Gallifrey, and while there I'd steal a TARDIS. And from there...
If I was actually going to throw myself into an adventure... well, there can't be any doubt: I'd travel to Gallifrey, and while there I'd steal a TARDIS. And from there...
Keith F. Goodnight
It's hard to single out just one favorite. I'm a fan of old-school adventure stories— all the way back to the pulp magazine and movie serial days— and they've always got a romance subplot between the hero and heroine, but there's rarely much focus on them as a couple: they go through thrilling life-or-death perils together but seldom have time to go out on a date.
So, do I pick one of those adventure teams, or choose from more modern stories where even in action/adventure the relationship has more character-based focus?
I think I've got to go with the old pulp stories, because those were definitely *my* first love. And of those, I have to pick John Carter and Dejah Thoris, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels (ignore the disappointing movie). Simply because (for me) they were the first.
So, do I pick one of those adventure teams, or choose from more modern stories where even in action/adventure the relationship has more character-based focus?
I think I've got to go with the old pulp stories, because those were definitely *my* first love. And of those, I have to pick John Carter and Dejah Thoris, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels (ignore the disappointing movie). Simply because (for me) they were the first.
Keith F. Goodnight
Recharge my creative fuel tanks. Read an exciting book. Watch a TV show or a movie. Go to an amusement park. Anything vivid, busy and stimulating. I don't know if it helps, but at least it's entertaining.
Keith F. Goodnight
Write, every day, even if you can only find 5 minutes to put a single sentence down.
Keith F. Goodnight
I'm working on the second book in the "Red Light and Shadow" series, which carries on the history of the United Offworld Colonies.
Keith F. Goodnight
By reading. I devoured books while growing up— I read during the minutes between classes at school, while my parents were driving me around, while I was in my room supposed to be doing homework. I took books to summer camp (camp was my parents' idea, not mine). When I got stuck playing on a little league baseball team one summer, I always snuck a book into the outfield with me. (How could anyone expect me to pay attention to a boring baseball game when the Lensmen were engaged in battle against the pirates of Boskone?)
Keith F. Goodnight
It came about as part of the overall "future history" I've had in my head since I was 14. How did these particular events become part of that history? I really can't say— it feels like I've always known the story of the United Offworld Colonies, the events of "The Child" being part of that. I'm constantly discovering new details, and it always feels like discovering, not inventing: as if I'm finding out something that was always there, even though I didn't know it.
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