As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
From Norman Spinrad
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
I never learned to read music.
I was a precocious reader.
I write in American slang.
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
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