I’ve never used my real name on a book. In the late ’70s, I used to think I would write a novel about Vietnam, and put my name on that. I had decided I would put a different name on different types of books, different genres, simply to avoid confusion. People would know clearly, this is a fantasy novel, this is a science fiction novel, this is a western, this is a historical novel, and I would put my real name on any contemporary fiction I write. Well, I’ve never written any contemporary fiction, as it turns out. If I wrote that Vietnam novel now, it would be a historical novel, and I’m not sure anybody’s really interested anymore. Vietnam is a long time in the past, almost 30 years ago,’ and it struck me that 30 years after my father came home from the South Pacific, not only had men walked on the moon, but the manned space program was already dying. That’s a long time! It gives you a little perspective.
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