I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.