Well first, Piers has never said such a thing. He did say recently that he was caught up on all the puns sent to him and was using some of his own. He doesn't talk down to his fans. He does complain that his fan mail takes up a lot of his writing time, but he answers nearly every letter personally. Most other authors do not do that for their fans.
As far as "But What of Earth," first, the book was pretty much re-written by Robert Coulson and the publisher put Coulson's name on it as a co-author, and did not even bother to tell Anthony! Later, Anthony re-published "But What of Earth" the way it should have been.
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Well first, Piers has never said such a thing. He did say recently that he was caught up on all the puns sent to him and was using some of his own. He doesn't talk down to his fans. He does complain that his fan mail takes up a lot of his writing time, but he answers nearly every letter personally. Most other authors do not do that for their fans. As far as "But What of Earth," first, the book was pretty much re-written by Robert Coulson and the publisher put Coulson's name on it as a co-author, and did not even bother to tell Anthony! Later, Anthony re-published "But What of Earth" the way it should have been.
His grad student research assistant was Alan Riggs. Alan hasn't worked for Piers for about 6 years. Piers does all his own research now.