Poet, novelist, short-story writer, Candas Dorsey will be the first Canadian to have her work published on Mars. Candas is president of Science Fiction Canada and the Writers' Guild of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
Every artist enters that creative space but writing is special.
It is special because it involves symbol which is interactive with the participant in a completely non-physical way. Everything in text is hypothetical, everything is speculative. You can't introduce me, or any other writer, to interactive technology, or virtual reality, or hypertext, on any level beyond the naming and the deconstruction of it, because we are there already. Text has a dizzying array of tools available for making close copies of reality and running scenarios in them. Text has infinite intractability, limited only by the ability of the reader to exercise imagination and get access to their own and communal experience.