Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.

Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.