We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.