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Recorded at:

The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005

with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview with author and Guest of Honor, Steven Barnes.
From Sunday, May 29, 2005

• Jason, his infant son is alternately crying and sleeping in next room
• There is a fine line about how literally to take your personal responsibility related to what does and does not happen in the world around you.
• Start with yourself if you care about what others are doing.
• It is tough taking responsibility for your all aspects of your life.
• “Team America: World Police”
• The U.S. is flawed and screwed up, but we try.
• Human beings keep reorganizing ourselves in higher and higher levels of abstraction.
• We want to move away from pain and toward pleasure.
• Trust in people’s enlightened selfishness.
• Your spouse / significant other is your mirror.
• There is no destination, just a direction in which to move.
• You aren’t any smarter than you were at 10. You just know more stuff.
• We’re all in this alone, together.
• It’s important to hold your place of peace when you’re under stress.
• We have all the knowledge we need to live exquisit lives.
• Oppression is not how you loose your way. Seduction is.
• In life you have to choose between two pains: disipline and regret.
• Steven is now teaching pure motion instead of specific martial arts.
• 1972 second place winner in the Korean Karate Championships.
• Do not think dishonestly. The way is in training.
• Steven was never a jock.
• Are you on the path now? now? now? now?
• Can I be the best person I can be right now?
• Steven talks about being black in America.
• What the culture says about blacks in America.
• His mother paid “The Power of Positive Thinking” to him all the time.
• The respect of men and the admiration of women.
• Steven is a “twisted hair”.
• “You want what?” Steven couldn’t follow the celebate path.
• There is no easy path.
• Steven strives to live a good life.
• His novels are about what it is to be a human being.
• Steven was the only black male sci-fi writer for over 20 years.
• Steven wants to move into writing for Hollywood.
• www.lifewrite.com - his website
• darkush.blogspot.com - his blog

Music by Bottomland.