“He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.”

— Laura Anne Gilman, book Flesh and Fire

Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 230

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American author and editor 1967

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