He Should Read More

(2006 continued...)

A profile of author Alex Irvine.

"What gets me about science fiction and all genre literature," he said in a recent coffee shop interview, "is that nobody has to work for a living. That drives me nuts...I want to write stories about people who work for a living."

Hmmm...I guess he hasn't read Allen Steele, Travis Taylor, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova, Robert A. Heinlein, Fred Pohl, Arthur C. Clarke, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman, C.M. Kornbluth, William Gibson, Michael Flynn, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman and many others. They all have written stories about people who work for a living. Granted, their jobs might not be what we do here and now, but you'll find plenty of "grunts" in the tales of these and others.