Thank you! You’re very welcome. :) That book was a ton of fun to write, despite the trouble it caused me. (I had a disk crash when I was 80% done and coming up against deadline, and had to recreate about 60K of words out of seven days’ time and an access of sheer adrenaline while typing in a straight-back chair.)
As for my blog: everybody’s surprised to find it. I have never once run into anyone who’s said, “Yeah, of course you’d be on Tumblr, after all they’re largely skewed to the age of people you’re best known for writing for.” :) (Not that that was the reason why I started here, mind you. But certainly it’s a fact.)
Anyway, thanks! :)
I rarely write about TOS stuff, but I read Spock’s World in middle school, back in the late-mid 80s, and absolutely loved it. Bought it with my own money. I wasn’t so much interested in the present-day part of the whole story, didn’t care about that really, but I loved the anthropology part of it, looking at the part of Vulcan and things like biological evolution. Many years later I discovered Ursula Le Guin and many of her books are very similarly oriented, sci-fi that goes into sociology, anthology and biology, and I absolutely love that. Wow, now I want to pull out my copy and read about those second eyelids!
Wendy
You’ve neatly encapsulated my favourite things about both Diane Duane and Ursula LeGuin. They take it _seriously_. They make it REAL.