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Kameron Hurley

Science fiction author, The Light Brigade

How we know it's theirs

Their 2014 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 11 posts and 582 comments from u/KameronHurley, dated 2012 to 2019, most often in r/Fantasy, r/books and r/tipofmytongue.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/books

On “Hi I'm Kameron Hurley, author of THE LIGHT BRIGADE Ask Me Anything!”

Hi Kameron, loved The Stars are Legion, glad to see that The Light Brigade is getting described as similarly an assault on the senses, looking forward to picking it up. I have to ask, what came first: the idea of a time-travel story or the 'what if light brigade meant…

u/KameronHurley replied

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The idea of busting soldiers down into beams of light came first. I was playing World of Warcraft and there's this point where you get turned into a ball of light to get transported from a cliff down to a tower of some kind, and I was trying to think up and story for Patreon and I was like... What if we turned soldiers into light so they could travel at the speed of light to and from interplanetary battlefronts? I bet you could do weird time distortion stuff and have time travel! That was the first inkling. The rest came later.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “Hey hey I'm Fantasy/SF author Kameron Hurley - AMA”

At this point in your career, is there a story you want to tell but feel you need to level up as a writer to be able to do it right?

u/KameronHurley replied

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I'm always telling the story that I'm not talented enough to write. I feel this way all the time with the Mirror Empire books, wishing I'd waited ten years to write them cause then I could write them CORRECTLY. But the thing is if you do that, you'll never finish anything, because you're always waiting until you're better, but how do you get better? By writing. So I am always writing the book that I feel I'm not quite good enough to write. The hope is that by the END of the book, the process of writing the book has leveled you up enough that at least you can edit it into a book that's good enough to pass muster.