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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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Stories
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Environment
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
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