DAVID ZINDELL

Thanks for visiting me here.e.

I’d like to welcome any comments you care to make, about this website or my books.  While it’s impossible for a writer to please everyone (unless that writer is J. K. Rowling and her books feature a troubled teenager named Harry Potter), it’s always helpful to know what is and isn’t working.  Which characters did you like?  Which fell flat?  Are there passages you tended to skip over?  Did anything delight you?  Did anything change the way you think or feel?

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes readers’ comments completely change the way I think and feel about certain things.  After I published Neverness, one very insightful reader took me to task for treating human brains as computers, run by the programs that we call minds.  Now, maybe we really are more machinelike than we’d like to admit.  Maybe we really are nothing more than biological computers.  But maybe we are something more.  Our scientists and philosophers argue with great intelligence both sides of this debate.  I, however, chose to accept as fact only one side of it, without considering it deeply – and worse, without acknowledging how I really felt.  When I finally did, I realized that I believed that human beings are something much, much more than mere computers.  That changed not only the course of my writing, but my life.

            So feel free to challenge or change me.  Tell me what you really think.  If it’s a favorable comment, I’d like to hear it – who wouldn’t?  If it’s a fierce criticism, so much the better.  We writers are tough, or should be, and in the end, as much as we write to please ourselves, we have to please you.           

David@DavidZindell.com