Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

When A Person Responds Emotionally To Intellectual Things, Or Emotionally Only To Traditional Emotional Things - I Find That An Interesting Break Between Myself And Some Other Writers And Fans.

This Individual Does Not Know Where Initiative Ends And Rocket-propelled Idiocy Begins.

Other People, Including Me, Have Written Books With Main Characters Who Were Old And Rich. Or Old And Brilliant. Old Sages, Old Wizards, Old Rich People.

Having To Struggle Gave Me The Chance To Demonstrate Strength Of Character.

My Personal Feeling About Science Fiction Is That It's Always In Some Way Connected To The Real World, To Our Everyday World.