John M. Ford

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem? ↗

— John M. Ford

#humor #toast #death

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. ↗

— John M. Ford

#creating #different #fiction #fictional #game

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made. ↗

— John M. Ford

#happy #i #made #new #new york

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. ↗

— John M. Ford

#darker #i #much #now #web

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. ↗

— John M. Ford

#ambiguity #been #deal #events #generally

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. ↗

— John M. Ford

#author #certainly #decide #decipher #else

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues. ↗

— John M. Ford

#contemporary #cynical #deal #disconnected #enough

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. ↗

— John M. Ford

#am #different #establishment #evolution #i

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. ↗

— John M. Ford

#characters #chosen #concentrating #effect #fictional

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. ↗

— John M. Ford

#audience #deliberately #dislike #expectations #goes