Donna asked H. Paul Honsinger:

Were you an avid science fiction reader growing up?

H. Paul Honsinger Absolutely. In fact, I drove the ladies who worked at my local public library nuts from my lobbying to increase their science fiction collection. They got to the point where someone would call me when they got something new. When I was a teenager, I subscribed to magazines as well: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Omni, etc. This is the stuff that influenced me--when I write, I am drawing on that experience more than any other, which is probably why some people have said that my writing is a throwback to an earlier era, because that is the soil that my stuff grows out of.

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