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gtpooh
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 Posted - 12/30/2004 : 11:22:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
hijacking imminent!
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Stephensen/Simmons are better
Stephenson is a great writer. I much prefer his work over King.
/unhijack
So, should we start another thread? Or just keep pirating this one?
Okay, start a new one, I ended up writing three paragraphs. Let me see if this old woman can figure out how to do this. {chuckle}
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Gwenny
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 12/30/2004 : 11:28:29 [Permalink]
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Ahoy! A hijack of the hijack! Arrrrrrr!
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Originally posted by gtpooh
He's much much much nicer than Harlan Ellison.
Over 20 years ago, I was channel surfing one day and ran across a panel discussion show on A&E (back when their emphasis was on the fine arts). The panel was made up of scifi authors, and led by Asimov. I don't recall who else was there (I think Arthur C. Clark was), but there were about six men, in high-backed leather chairs and wearing nice suits...
...And then there was Ellison. He was wearing a leather jacket, and was seated in what looked like a folding chair. The discussion, if I remember correctly, was about scifi movies, and most of the authors had nice things to say about the genre (post Star Wars), except that Ellison wouldn't stop ranting about how people shouldn't hear big explosions in space.
Sure, they shouldn't, but making the point once should have been enough. Ellison appeared quite single-minded, though.
On a slightly-related topic, I met Asimov at a tiny scifi convention (there were maybe 100 attendees) in Pennsylvania shortly after seeing the show mentioned above. The impression I was left with was "my, what a dirty old man." |
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gtpooh
New Member
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 12:26:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Ahoy! A hijack of the hijack! Arrrrrrr!
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Originally posted by gtpooh
He's much much much nicer than Harlan Ellison.
Over 20 years ago, I was channel surfing one day and ran across a panel discussion show on A&E (back when their emphasis was on the fine arts). The panel was made up of scifi authors, and led by Asimov. I don't recall who else was there (I think Arthur C. Clark was), but there were about six men, in high-backed leather chairs and wearing nice suits...
...And then there was Ellison. He was wearing a leather jacket, and was seated in what looked like a folding chair. The discussion, if I remember correctly, was about scifi movies, and most of the authors had nice things to say about the genre (post Star Wars), except that Ellison wouldn't stop ranting about how people shouldn't hear big explosions in space.
Sure, they shouldn't, but making the point once should have been enough. Ellison appeared quite single-minded, though.
I met him at the World Horror Con when it was in Denver, and he's just an out and out ass. It's probably the only thing my mother and I agree about. :)
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On a slightly-related topic, I met Asimov at a tiny scifi convention (there were maybe 100 attendees) in Pennsylvania shortly after seeing the show mentioned above. The impression I was left with was "my, what a dirty old man."
That has always been what I heard. LOL I didn't get involved in the who con thing until early 1999, so I missed every seeing him. But a lot of my friends would say the same thing and, of course, filks about him and lime jello are ubiquitous.
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Gwenny
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 12/30/2004 : 14:17:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
On a slightly-related topic, I met Asimov at a tiny scifi convention (there were maybe 100 attendees) in Pennsylvania shortly after seeing the show mentioned above. The impression I was left with was "my, what a dirty old man."
Damn! I love Asimov! Alas, I was too young and too foreign to ever meet him. Oh well. Let's see if I can meet Clarke. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/30/2004 : 14:59:32 [Permalink]
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Clarke is an OLD fart these days. He rarely leaves Sri Lanka.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 15:15:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Clarke is an OLD fart these days. He rarely leaves Sri Lanka.
I know [whine] But I still love his books. Maybe I'll stalk him. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 12/31/2004 : 03:14:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Siberia
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Originally posted by tw101356
What if you're writing your first novel and you like to discuss the conspiracy that's central to the plot with your writers group?
Whoa! That just gave me a chill... imagine that, being arrested because I was discussing the way a character's gonna kill another?
Though, I'd most likely be arrested due to software piracy, heh.
Something similar happened to the company Steve Jackson Games: while researching and writing computer crimes and infiltration techniqes to be included in their cyber-punk module for their role-playing game GURPS, they got hit by the FBI who siezed their computers for planning computer crimes.
They lost 6 months worth of development time, fighting the legal system almost made them bankrupt, but the publicity of them being targeted by the FBI boosted their sales. What RP-Gamer wouldn't want to have the RPG-module that the FBI tried to stop because it was too close to reality?  |
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