I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.