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I really appreciated his theme of life evolving from one race of gods to another, with one power having to give way to another, as Hyperion must.

It's pure celebration, in the same way my first SF novel, Hyperion, was a celebration of the various forms of SF, from Jack Vance to cyberpunk.

I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

If they read dumbed down SF or fantasy, it's their choice to dumb themselves down.

But while the degree certified me to teach K-junior college, I became interested in elementary-age kids and taught on that level for 18 years.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

For me, it's not only the matter of rotating crops so as not to deplete the soil, but the appeal of trying to master the different styles, learn the necessary tropes and protocols, and to honor the best writing in these various genres.

As I write this, I've just got off the phone with the television writers and director who are trying to adapt Darwin's Blade to a TV series, and what I suspect they'll miss completely is that delicate balance between humor and tragedy, slapstick and real violence.

Since I hate endless sequels that provide diminishing returns for the reader, I've vowed that these will be the last novels ever set in the still-fecund Hyperion universe.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

I'm not anti-church by any means; what interests me is that human beings are almost always corrupted by the control they wield over other human beings.

Whenever I get poisoned by reading too much pretentious writing, overblown prose carrying too-little freight, and serious, self-conscious lit'ry posturing, I would read a Parker-the-thief novel and remember how lean and mean and clean good prose can be.

By third grade, I was writing Timmy McBrown: Boy Detective stories on narrow-lined paper and secretly handing them around the classroom.

Finally, there's the simple fact that I would be bored silly if I read in only one genre or one type of author - so why write in only one form?

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

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