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Has your interaction with fans, for example at conventions, affected your work? - No! but if anything I think it helps it. Is there any particular fannish incident that stands out? Many Do you have a favourite author or book or series that has influenced you or that you return to? Wow! Yes of course from Cannes to Star Trek

Robert O'Reilly as Gowron in Star Trek: The Next Generation, (c) Paramount

A lady of course

Who would you most DISlike to be trapped in a lift with?

- A man of course

What would you pack for space?

- Ladies please.

(Editor - I think I'm seeing a pattern....)

What is the most important thing you would like to get from your work?

Well, I think there are many answers to that, sometimes its as grand as understanding human nature, to understand myself, sometimes its to communicate something.

Collected 1995
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