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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

I can always go back to education.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.