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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
