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Nonfiction works include The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), a sequel to which has appeared in Japan as The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994). ...When I went to Tokyo, they drove me past the department store where I was going to go for signings.

    Keyes:  I have, actually, been the editor of a science fiction magazine, Marvel Science Stories, which I edited for a year and a half.

I'll read it while you're here. The story, the novel, the movie Charly got the Academy Award for Cliff Robertson. The line was wrapped around the block three times! I called Horace Gold, and he said, 'Bring it over. Have a cup of coffee, read a magazine.' Horace was an agoraphobic who ran poker games Friday night to Saturday dawn in his First Avenue apartment, and his office for Galaxy was there too.

    Question: I thought it was good enough but it had a somber effect.  Everybody from THE GODS OF MARS on hasn't been too specific about their happier moments.

    Q: What do you think about the science fiction field in general, are you very familiar with it? I was suffering, becuase I wanted the book published!

    Question: Has all this kept you pretty busy? I'll read it while you're here. It was expanded to the novel Flowers for Algernon (1966) and in that form tied for the Nebula Award in 1967. I called Horace Gold, and he said, 'Bring it over. The sequel will be published in the US by Bantam when the film version of the first book appears from Warner, as The Crowded Room.

They brought me gifts, flowers, candy, letters, and I sat there thinking, 'I feel like a rock star.'..."