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Sue Thomas

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I'm currently pitching my 3rd novel, 'The Empathy Hack'. It's about nature, technology and empathy. If you're into the umwelt or webcams, they're in there too. Restarting in fiction when you haven't had an agent for 20 years is hard to do but I hope to find a friendly publisher.

My first novel was 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992, The James Tiptree Award, and the European Science Fiction Award). In 1994 I published my second novel, 'Water', and edited the anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994).

After that I turned to nonfiction: 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995); the cyberspace memoir/travelogue 'Hello World:
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Sue Thomas I'm inspired to write by ideas and questions. My first novel. Correspondence, 1992, was written to answer two questions that had been buzzing around i…moreI'm inspired to write by ideas and questions. My first novel. Correspondence, 1992, was written to answer two questions that had been buzzing around in my head for a long time. 1. What might it feel like to be a machine? 2. Why was I obsessing about living closer to nature? It turned out that the answer to both questions was the same thing, which was a real surprise, and that understanding has informed my thinking ever since. My second novel, Water, 1994, came simply from a desire to write a novel about water, and to do it without repeating myself in terms of imagery etc. In that case, it became a book about desire, imagining, and motherhood. Another surprise! So I guess I'm inspired to write by a quest for answers that I don't understand until I reach the end.(less)
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“It merely suggests that we stop wasting time hating technology and redirect that energy towards loving nature instead.”
Sue Thomas, Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age: How to feel better without logging off

“We came to believe that we could concrete over the fields and design a better life for ourselves, free of nature’s wildness and uncertainties. But it’s very obvious now that this was the wrong way to go.”
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