Zitat des Tages von Joe Haldeman:
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
