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Decadence is wonderful.
I write novels and other things.
You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.
I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.