With a loyalty toward
each other that would create envy in every generation, they test
themselves against cunning scoundrels. As they conquer villains, they,
and we along with them, learn whether they measure up. Will they prove
themselves worthy as young people have done for all time? Young readers
can have a chance to preview something about their own lives and the
world they will live in. And just as you believed, somehow the human
race survives. If the world of Starman is an accurate guess on the
future, then the good guys, the ones in the white spacesuits, will
continue to prevail and produce more young people to keep the dream
alive. I hope that some of the next generation of courageous young
people will read this series.
Your fans don't know that you started writing seriously relatively
early in life, in the 1920's and '30's, first as a teen for your
personal pleasure and then on your school newspaper at New Utrecht High
School in Brooklyn, New York. Did having to learn the English language
after speaking Russian until the age of seven help you become a better
writer? Were your poems and letters to Mom valuable both to her and to
your professional development? Did the comic books you authored during
the Golden Age of comics give you a better sense of story-telling and
dialogue or did it degrade your love of language? I know that writing
television scripts and other creative projects supported the family
during the difficult years of the 1950's, but how did it affect your
later work with Digby Allen? So many of your themes are repeated and
reworked in several of your creations right through to the late 1980's.
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