I have been writing since I was a teenager, drawn to the science fiction field, the so called new wave of the 60s, with the likes of Harlan Ellison. Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Thomas Disch, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhlem, Ray Nelson, and so many others. I enjoy working in the speculative fiction genre because of the infinite possibilities of creating wonderful strange worlds that yet describe the human condition.
In 1973, I read Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize winning, The Denial of Death, and was struck by the truth of his theory that death is the mainspring of more...
