Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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About Me
- Steven Barnes
- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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Steve: I can really identify with you on this one. When I was a kid in the Bronx there was a vacant lot near our apartment building. My friend and I decided that it would be great place for a library. There were none in our neighborhood so he and I wrote letters to the mayor saying they should build one there. Two tears later they built a library on that lot. I have always wondered if it was coincidence or if our letters had something to do with it. Ate any rate the two of us stood on line to get into "our" library when it opened. I collected 22 books I wanted to read in a shopping bag. The librarian didn't want to let me check all those books out because she thought there was noway I could read them all before they were due. I talked her into letting me take them all and three weeks later when I returned them she said "you didn't really read them all did you?" I told I had and she wanted I could tel her about each story.
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