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I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
Kevin J. Anderson
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Kevin J. Anderson
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: March 27
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Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.
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I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
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Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
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Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
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