At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.