[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. 'Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?' they asked me. 'Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?' I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.