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I read my first science fiction book in 4th grade. It was this:Star Surgeon (1959) by Alan E. Noursehttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/18492/18492-h/18492-h.htmLibriVoxReview of Star Sugeon by Alan E. NourseStar Surgeon: Alan Nourse: 9781598180657: Amazon.com: BooksThat got me hooked on science fiction.Project GutenbergOmnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam PiperScientific Language: H. Beam Piper’s “Omnilingual”OmnilingualLibriVoxIn my rarely humble opinion the stuff called science fiction today has become more stupid. I do not regard Star Wars as SF. It is fantasy with a thin SF coating. I do not believe I would have liked Harry Potter when I was 9.

It would look like the one I submit to science fiction conventions and book festivals for their convention books.MERCEDES R LACKEYMercedes Lackey was born in Chicago Illinois on June 24, 1950. The very next day, the Korean War was declared. It is hoped that there is no connection between the two events.She was raised mostly in the northwestern corner of Indiana, attending grade school and high school in Highland Indiana. She graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. This, she soon learned, along with a paper hat and a nametag will qualify you to ask “would you like fries with that?” at a variety of fast-food locations.After spending time in jobs ranging from artist’s model to lab technician at the Mosquito Genetics Project to short-order cook, she took training and became a computer programmer. About this time she discovered science fiction conventions and the Society for Creative Anachronism, and began attending functions of both, more often in costume than not.She had always written from her early teens, and developed this hobby by writing fan-fiction for various amateur magazines. In the 1980s she took a job programming computers for a major airline and as a consequence moved to Oklahoma, where she continued to write. At this time she met both Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of The Mists of Avalon, and .C J Cherryh, both of whom helped mentor her from the ranks of the amateur into those of the professional writers.In 1985 her first book was published. In 1990 she met artist Larry Dixon at a small Science Fiction convention in Meridian Mississippi, on a television interview organized by the convention. They began working together from that time on, and were married in Las Vegas at the Excalibur chapel by Merlin the Magician (aka the Reverend Duckworth) in 1992.They moved to their current home, the “second weirdest house in Oklahoma” also in 1992. She has many pet parrots and “the house is never quiet.” She has 128 books in print, and publishes between 5 and 6 books a year, alone or in collaboration. Some of her foreign editions can be found in Russian, German, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Turkish, and Japanese. She is the author, alone or in collaboration, of the Heralds of Valdemar, Elemental Masters, Secret World Chronicles, 500 Kingdoms, Diana Tregarde, Heirs of Alexandria, Obsidian Mountain, Dragon Jouster, Bedlam Bards, Shadow Grail, and Hunter and other series and standalone books.She has continued her hobby of costuming, although now she costumes Asian Ball Jointed as the characters from her books, because “They don’t yell when you stick pins in them.” She also does art-needlework and beadwork, sometimes combining these hobbies with her doll-making, usually sending these as gifts or to charity auctions as well. She always has several of these projects going at any one time, because they give her the opportunity to think about her stories while her hands are busy. Occasionally she costumes porcelain dolls as one of her characters to be sent as charity auction pieces. Her current project is a set of Secret World Chronicle dolls.A nightowl by nature, she is generally found at the keyboard between 10 PM and 6 AM.

I could come up with ideas for crushing your son’s love of art and dinosaurs. But I won’t.You see, I was that 6-year-old kid fifty-two years ago. I loved drawing and dinosaurs. One of my most vivid memories from childhood was making a paper machet creature that I called a “Clip clop glop” in second grade. It was part horse and part crocodile, and looked very dinosaurian indeed. My teacher loved it, and encourage me to pursue my interests.I read books about dinosaurs, and that lead to reading about science fiction and fantasy. My crude drawings turned into better drawings, and eventually I tried making movies with my father’s Super 8mm movie camera. Then I started writing scripts for my movies, which lead to me writing short stories.When it was time for me to go to college, I wanted to major either in creative writing, art or film. But I didn’t think there would be any money in it, so I decided to major in computer science instead. But I never gave up my love of creating things.My COBOL (a programming language for business) professor caught me using the campus computer for writing poetry and making pictures of the Starship Enterprise. But instead of admonishing me — he offered me a job working in a computer store he owned with a couple of the other college professors. It was there that I met a couple of the people who started up some of the first computer game publishing companies, and one of them asked me to develop some computer games for his company.I did, and when I graduated, he offered me a job at his company. That eventually led to me becoming the first video game producer at The Walt Disney Company, and then later at The 3DO Company, Activision, and the Spin Master Toy company. I’ve collaborated on projects with writer Harlan Ellison, artist H.R. Giger, and film director Wes Craven. My career was a very successful and fulfilling one, and I earned a good living from it.Every day I am very grateful for that second-grade teacher who encouraged my passion for dinosaurs and art. I don’t think I would have been a grateful to as father who had discouraged my interests and tried to mold me into his image for what I should be, rather than allowing me to find myself.