Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
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Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
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Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
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Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.