Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in their Creative Spaces
I like looking at people's workspaces, not sure why.
Some time in late 2008 I got invited to a party at his house, mostly or entirely, I suspect, because he mistook me for someone else. While there I asked if I could see his Hugos, since I knew he had five of them. "Of course!" he said, jovially, and lead me up to his office. This I thought in stunned wonder as my eyes crept across the expanse of it, is a place of great significance and it needs to be seen. It was like I'd cracked open his skull and seen the gears of genius. The best way I can describe it is as a nest, made out of books, as intricate and well assembled as a Nevelson sculpture. I asked him if I could stop back and photograph it. 'Of course,' he said, 'but not before I clean it up.' I begged him not to but he replied 'You can't stop me from doing it, nor will you be able to tell that I have.'