…real name for a person to have, but it is a variation of the name of the Martian protagonist in the Robert Heinlein science fiction classic Stranger in a Strange Land, whose name is Valentine Michael Smith. This book was immensely influential in the…

…physiology. Wow. And why did you choose the pseudonym Michael Valentine Smith? Well, you know where that came from, no? I do, yeah. Robert Heinlein. He was one of the biggest people in the field at that time, and I'd read a number of his works, and so…

…of his works, and so I thought, oh, what do I think of? Well, I'll partly use my name, and then I'll take off from Heinlein. Right. And do you like Stranger in a Strange Land? Is that something that Wow, I have no idea what I would think of it…