I grew up reading Golden Age sci-fi, the classics, and all kinds of weird stuff my rather strange mother left lying around. I'm still an eclectic reader but now I'm also a writer of very serious (but action-packed) sci-fi.
My influences are hard for me to fathom because I have read so much, but if you ask me which are my writing heroes, I could rattle off a few names like Ursula le Guin (who writes so well and is scarily intelligent), Kurt Vonnegut (who felt all the pain of being here but, somehow, didn't despair until the very end), Ray Bradbury (whose "Martian Chronicles" more...