Occupation: Fictioneer Birth: May 18, 1930 Death: June 29, 2007
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons..
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published..
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have….
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 worl….
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go….
I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I wou….
I have some good stories yet to tell..
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's g….
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going….
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….
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history..
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually ….
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity..
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold l….
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally….
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet..
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….
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have….
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time..
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires..