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Goodreads asked Stephen R. Wilk:

How do you get inspired to write?

Stephen R. Wilk For nonfiction, I was inspired by the "Science Fact" articles by Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jat Gould, L. Sprague de Camp, and Willy Ley, among others. For Fiction, the works of Asimov (again), Arthur C. Clarke, Fredric Brown, and others.

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