I Have A Bad Tendency To Get

Besides The Mistakes That Are Pointed Out, I Love The Way Readers Become Involved With The Characters. When Readers Start Asking About Character Motivations Instead Of Concentrating On The Special Effects, It Means You're Connecting With Them On A Personal Level.

There's Certainly More New Sf Available Than When I Started Writing. That Means There's Also More Bad Sf Available. Whether There Is Also More Good Is A Matter For Future Historians Of The Field.

I See The Jedi Mission As Giving Up A Normal Life In Exchange For Protecting The Innocent. It's A Life Of Sacrifice. There Are Rewards, But Also A Certain Degree Of Sterility.

Writing Allows Me The Time To Travel And See The World, Which Is What I Always Wanted To Do. I'd Really Like To Have Been Sir Richard Francis Burton, But It's The Wrong Century.

Advances Have Fallen, Generally, For Everything Except The Biggest Potential Bestsellers. Given All The Changes, Both Economic And Technological, Sf Hasn't Done Too Badly.