Reply #10: I'm nearly 63 and these are the best years ever!

[Striker Davies]

I got very fit this year, lost about 20 pounds, still walk 4-5 miles each day or ride the bike for an hour in a very hilly location, play golf 2-3 times a week. I had one book published in the US back in 1996, wrote several others, still trying to get another one published. But I've started a project of a kids' SF Trilogy, and I've had wonderful luck in getting a Catholic High School to take the first book as a class project for the Gifted Student stream and work with me, ripping it apart until it's the book they would love to read. Then I intend to sell a few million copies.

Meanwhile, courtesy of President Raving Lunatic, world tensions are such that every corporation and government department in Australia is looking to get Disaster Recovery Plans developed, and that's what my little consulting firm does, so we are starting to get very busy and will soon be very rich.

Then I can properly retire and write the next ten books (after the kids' SF Trilogy is finished) at my rural property up the coast of New South Wales and get my golf handicap below 20.

Screw getting old. That's for silly people.