At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
I'm a huge science fiction fan.
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.
I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.