Over The Years, I've Trained Myself To

When I Was Doing Preliminary Research On This Case, I Remembered The Story About Tlazolteotl.' [mulder] Glanced At The Old Archaeologist. 'am I Pronouncing It Correctly? It Sounds Like I'm Swallowing A Turtle.

I Got To Spend All Of My Time Every Day At Work Reading And Editing Papers About Cutting-edge Technical Research And Getting Paid For It. Then I'd Go Home At Night And Turn What I Learned Into Science Fiction Stories.

When Tending A Vast And Beautiful Garden, You Have To Plant Many Seeds, Never Knowing Ahead Of Time Which Ones Will Germinate, Which Will Produce The Most Glorious Flowers, Which Will Bear The Sweetest Fruit. A Good Gardener Plants Them All, Tends And Nurtures Them, And Wishes Them Well. Optimism Is The Best Fertilizer.

I Think Now I'm Up To Something Like 85 Different Titles That I've Published.

I Wanted The Feel In These Books To Be Like An Epic Fantasy, With Kings, Queens, Dukes And Court Politics, But Of Course Like What I Was Explaining Before, About Making The Science Make Sense, You Have To Make The Politics Make Sense, Too.