But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.