Obviously It Could Be, Because It Was.

Adults Had The Notion That Juveniles Needed To Suffer. Only When They Had Suffered Enough To Wipe Out Most Of Their Naturally Joyous Spirits And Innocence Were They Staid Enough To Be Considered Mature. An Adult Was Essentially A Broken-down Child.

Sf Is The Literature Of The Theoretically Possible, And F Is The Literature Of The Impossible.

I Do One Xanth Novel A Year, Because At The Moment That Is All That Publishers Will Accept; They Don't Want Any Other Type Of Fiction From Me, So Xanth Pays My Way.

People Talk-- They Sneer At Escapism. Well, There Are Those Of Us Who Need It.

In Fact, I Believe That We Need Better Sex Education In Our Own Culture, Here In America, So That Young Folk Learn About Things Like Venereal Disease Before They Encounter It.