Author Services Inc.: How did you become interested in science fiction and when did you become a writer?

I was born in 1931 and discovered science fiction in 1936 when I started following Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and my favorite—Brick Bradford and his Time Top—in the Sunday comics. A few years later, I came across a magazine called Young America, which ran quite a bit of science fiction, including serializations of stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs such as At the Earth’s Core. When I was eleven, I got my first rejection letter from Planet Stories. Years later, I was at Columbia University when I sold my first story, and figured I had gotten what I had been paying for and left school. I have been working as a writer and editor, in one form or another, ever since.