A List of David’s Tales
John Steakley’s reflection from his novel Armor will forever guide me: “You are what you do when it counts”. And this is why most of us are not who we were to be. * To see a catalogue of my tales, open this story.
“I begin to speak, yet pause, to not destroy the hope of autumn.”
* In remembrance of 辛棄疾.
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She draws the curtains on the double suns, feeling disorientated.
(Last edited on the 2nd of June 2024.)
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About me
My earliest memories are trying to convince my mother that we were a family from another planet, living clandestinely on Earth.
For years I have written, redacted and translated for others. It was always satisfying when I finished the assignment, but it was never easy.
My father used to say that writing should be truthful but never easy. When it becomes effortless, you have stopped caring.
Perhaps I can explain in telegraph fashion who I am by listing my favourite SF authors — a person is shaped by what he reads:
Iain M. Banks, Jack Vance, John Steakley, Alfred Bester, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, Frederik Pohl, Terry Pratchett and Fritz Leiber.
And regarding the “classics”?
I would choose Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, Mika Waltari, John O’Hara, Aldous Huxley, John Steinbeck, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham and V.S. Naipaul, among others.
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