True Confession: Why I Would Never Write Under a Pseudonym

Light On Light Through · Aug 19, 2007

As some of you know, I write both fiction and non-fiction. I try to do as much damage as possible.

To some extent, I lead two separate lives as an author. There are many people who know me only or primarily as a science fiction writer, and many who know me mostly as an author of books on the history, evolution, and social impact of communications media.

I'm sometimes asked why I don't write under two separate names. The logic is that I might be taken more seriously in my non-fiction if I wasn't also known as a science fiction writer.

Actually, this may have once been a problem - long before I…