My Personal Feeling About Science Fiction Is

When I Was Starting Out, I Did Not Do Short Fiction Well, Because I Kept Wanting To Write Books.

But In Fantasy, You Can Make A Complete Break, And You Can Put People In A Situation Where They Are Confronted With Things That They Would Not Confront In The Real World.

So When I Got Out Of The Military, I Went Back To School In Biology, And Earned A Biology Degree At The University Of Texas, And Then Did Some Graduate Work In It.

Sometimes I Wonder How Normal Normal People Are, And I Wonder That Most In The Grocery Store.

A Tree Is Alive, And Thus It Is Always More Than You Can See. Roots To Leaves, Yes-those You Can, In Part, See. But It Is More-it Is The Lichens And Moss And Ferns That Grow On Its Bark, The Life Too Small To See That Lives Among Its Roots, A Community We Know Of, But Do Not Think On. It Is Every Fly And Bee And Beetle That Uses It For Shelter Or Food, Every Bird That Nests In Its Branches. Every One An Individual, And Yet Every One Part Of The Tree, And The Tree Part Of Every One.