Today, science fiction has grown respectable enough that one is tempted to have the label stamped on one's books. Yet, I am not that brave.
Snobs still live in the thickets, just beyond the orchard.
Taking the people from my home town who had been raised in a green land, I parceled them into rockets and sent them off to Mars. During the ages of three and six years old, he developed an interest in the horror genre after seeing plays of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. When he received a toy typewriter for Christmas in 1932, he wrote his own stories about Buck Rogers. He was in the drama club at Los Angeles High School and performed in various shows, but he also wrote scripts for the shows while continuing his short story writing. So, from the beginning, I was headed wrong in two fields that would never prove out.