Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Carr. Green Michael Flynn and Steven Barnes and collaborated as an editor on an anthology series with John F. Pournelle opposed both Gulf Wars maintaining that the money would be better spent developing energy technologies for the United States.

Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.