In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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What do you think it means for fiction to be accessible, though that’s probably not an easy question to answer.

Mostly I ask myself: Do you need the equivalent of a Master’s Degree in Science Fiction Studies to understand the story? If so, then it’s not particularly accessible. It might be brilliant to those steeped in genre literature, but newcomers to the SF/F sphere will bounce off it, hard.

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