The Old and the New

by M. L. Buchman

"What writers have most influenced your writing?"

As a writer, I get that question all the time. And I've had an answer that I've liked for a long time:

"Well, I'm not sure who influenced me, but I can tell you the writers who I've read almost everything they've written: Arthur C. Clarke, a lot of Heinlein and Asimov, the complete fiction of Ayn Rand and Herman Hesse (read in