Spotted this gem in
Michael
Swanwick's interview with Rick Lkeffel in the World Fantasy Convention
program book:
"As a writer, I consciously try to make what I write
exciting for the reader -- to give him or her more than just a
really well-written change on something they've read before. I try
to give each story something that the reader has never encountered
before. Something as big and obvious and wonderful as a giant
striding the downs with dinosaurs and tribes of stone-age elves
living in the forests atop his head is worth any number of polished
and lapidarian phrases."
Word.