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29 April 2002: Author Focus issue on John M. Ford

[Interview: John M. Ford, by Mary Anne Mohanraj and Fred Bush]

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ARTICLE: Interview: John M. Ford, by Mary Anne Mohanraj and Fred Bush

"SF/F is very often about The Event -- getting the space colony built, defeating the Dark Overlord; the characters are there to help or impede that effort, and to tell us what we're supposed to think about it. I want to come at it from the characters' angle, and trust the reader to decide what the moral implications are."

FICTION: As Above, So Below, by John M. Ford

All moments were one to a dragon, tomorrow as real as yesterday, this very instant the same to it as last year or next generation.

POETRY: Troy: The Movie, by John M. Ford

The motion for the Trojan's
From the goddess with the bodice,
The Greek who's got the grief
Is in the stew from the blue,
As they'll say in the talkie remake

REVIEWS: "Scrabble with God," Fiction with John M. Ford: The Unpredictable Pleasures of From the End of the Twentieth Century and The Last Hot Time, by Christopher Cobb

Ford is an intensely exciting and surprising writer partly because of this paradox: he is both intensely aware of genre and utterly disrespectful of its social strictures.

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