Forever Magazine Issue 5 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: novelette, novella, science fiction, science fiction magazine, short stories, short story
Publisher: Wyrm Publishing
Published: 2015-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October-November 2003.

A Few Words with Walter Jon Williams

What was the inspiration for this story? / Where did it come from?

I wanted to contrast the present with a future where death was nonexistence, or at worst temporary. Where genetic engineering is new, with one where it is commonplace. And with our present, where the economics of scarcity devalues labor, with a future where the economics of abundance make labor precious

What are some of your favorite short stories?

“Fondly Fahrenheit” by Alfred Bester

“A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny

“Vintage Season” by Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner

“That Only a Mother” by Judith Merrill

“Scanners Live in Vain” by Cordwainer Smith

. . . and hey, that only takes us to 1963!

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