The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Anything he claims to have invented, he didn't. He's a science fiction writer.

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren't the same as groupies.