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Blogs by Roxanne Smolen
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4/10/2004 6:17:05 PM
My name is Roxanne and I write feminist science fiction—that’s science fiction where women rule. I like sci-fi because it is inventive. Anything goes. But that can also be its downfall, because if the story is too farfetched it becomes unbelievable. To make the story seem real, it must have characters that seem real.
I am often asked if my characters are actually me, if I put myself and my experiences into my stories. But I don’t think it’s necessary to base my character’s personalities on my own. To write them, I only need to understand them.
In RESORT DEBAUCH, my main character, Anneliese, is the only daughter of the richest man in the galaxy. She lives in a palace on a private moon and can have anything she wants. But what she wants most is the love and attention of her father. And he is a very busy man.
He is also a man who has been known to stand one step outside the law, and he sometimes hires unscrupulous characters to run errands for him. One such man, a dashing and charming rogue, involves Anneliese in a romance. Despite her father’s objections, Anneliese marries this man.
Anneliese is a romantic and envisions a fairytale honeymoon. However, her new husband takes her to the Resort Debauch, an infamous pleasure planet where every sordid fantasy you may have can be made to happen.
At this point, everyone except Anneliese can tell that all this man wants is her money—and part of the mystery of the story is why he didn’t arrange some fatal and tragic accident and, as her beneficiary, take off with her wealth.
Instead, he steals much more than her money. He takes away her identity, her innocence, all her fairytales. He sells her into prostitution and abandons her in a cage. And he laughs, saying that she is weak. And her assailants laugh, telling her that she will never escape. But she does escape.
About twelve years ago, I was told that I had a degenerative eye disease. I wanted to just pull the covers over my head. Instead, I started writing stories about women who didn’t give up.
So are my characters really me? No. I think my characters are the women I wish I could be.
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