People on earth are never alone,” he explained. “There’s always someone as a guide for each individual. - Richard Matheson

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

I've always considered myself an offbeat writer. Out here in California they like to categorize, so I'm a science fiction writer. I wrote science fiction to break into the writing business. My love is fantasy. I wrote one of my early novels in four days sitting in a closet which I'd converted into an office, using an old Smith-Corona that my parents had given me for Christmas when I was 12.