Sometimes I Wonder How Normal

There Are Relatively Few Science Fiction Or Fantasy Books With The Main Character Being An Old Person.

There Is Simple Ignorance, Not Knowing, And Willful Ignorance That Refuses To Know, That Covers The Light Of Knowledge With The Dark Blanket Of Bias.

Hard To Be A Physics Major At Rice University If You Have Flunked Calculus.

Other People, Including Me, Have Written Books With Main Characters Who Were Old And Rich. Or Old And Brilliant. Old Sages, Old Wizards, Old Rich People.

So When I Got Out Of The Military, I Went Back To School In Biology, And Earned A Biology Degree At The University Of Texas, And Then Did Some Graduate Work In It.