“I was listening to Tim Powers talking and he said he didn't want his villains just defeated, he wanted them humiliated and destroyed. And I thought: 'I don't. I want my villains to be understood and forgiven.”

—  Daniel Abraham

interview with Jack Womack in Orbit Books Podcast http://www.orbitbooks.net/2011/04/27/orbit-podcast-episode-3-with-daniel-abraham/

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speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

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