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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

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But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

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Pleasure

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

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Fantasy

Writing

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

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Time

Internet

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

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Letters

Present

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

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Sense

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

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Literature

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.