"The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so."
"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known."
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Source: Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey
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