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.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

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.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

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