If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

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

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

Obviously it could be, because it was.