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Brawne Lamia's tale in Hyperion was my first celebration of the Chandleresque, Hammettesque narrative tone and it was fun to connect that honored tradition to the wildly futuresque world(s) of the World Web in the Hyperion universe.

I grew up in the Midwest. Everyone there knows - it's in our DNA - that it's important to rotate the crops. Keep growing the same thing in the same field for enough years and nothing will grow. Celebrating diversity, when it comes to growing crops and writing books, is more than a slogan.

I first created the Hyperion universe for my students during storytelling hour, little by little, day after day.

Even so, I don't recommend writing across genres to beginning writers of any age.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

When one moves from horror novels to SF epics to historical espionage novels to suspense thrillers to hardboiled noir to mainstream novels, as I have, it means that new readerships are constantly being courted and created, while some old relationships are broken.

My own religious beliefs - or lack of them - aren't pertinent to the ideas and philosophies explored in these books.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

In fourth grade, I typed out my first science fiction story on old Underwood upright.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

When I finished The Fall of Hyperion, I knew that there was much of the large canvas yet unfinished, but I waited another four years until writing the bookend volumes, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion.

Ilium is, like the Hyperion novels, an expansive and - I hope - generous celebration not only of SF but of SF's kindredship to the great epics of our literary history.

The most challenging aspect of writing Hardcase was going over the top the way the story does without losing the willing suspension of disbelief required from the reader.

Hardcase was written over a period of two months in the year 2000 when I took a break from a particularly difficult (and personal) novel I was writing, A Winter Haunting.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

I had thought for years it was time to pillage Homer the way I had with Keats for the two Hyperion books, and that I had done enough reading over the years to use the themes and some of the imagery and ideas in The Iliad in a fun way with SF.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Beyond that, the Hyperions were my first foray into long-form SF, a genre I'd read and loved for years.

As a youngster, I was the Tom Sawyer of the group - the boy providing the imaginary framework for our play, giving the backstory for the toy soldiers in the sandbox, deciding on the names of the characters we played in our backyard adventures.

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