“I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.”
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped, ' I focus on neural implants.
I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
