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About a hundred years ago, in a misguided attempt to understand why human beings act the way they do, I earned a degree in psychology. Employment opportunities being what they are in that lucrative field, I have worked as a wage slave in chemical plants ever since. Those twin experiences instilled in me both a visceral distrust of experts and a profound aversion to honest work. These moral defects, in their turn, caused me to become a writer.

In 1960, at a moment when reptilian behemoths still stalked the Earth, I borrowed a book from the Bane Elementary School library. The tome was entitled Peter and the Rocket Ship, and pouring over Peter’s adventures engendered in me an inveterate appreciation of science fiction. This being the case, it w ...more

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