Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:45:59 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Close Encounters . . .Re: re: likes/dislikes in reading
	material
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> eginter at klgai.com 03/26/02 06:35PM >>>
>Cathy, you reminded me of another of my Encounters with Greatness. (BTW, =
I
>had meant to start a thread on that topic, but I don't think I made that
>clear--please, everyone post your Close Encounters of the SF [or other]
>Greatness Kind!)
>
>Around 1979, Frederik Pohl spoke at Princeton University, where my
>ex-husband was a grad student. I asked him if he thought he would have
>written "Gateway" differently had he written it 20 years before (it was
>fairly new at the time). I said it seemed to me that a 1960-vintage
>"Gateway" would have been a travelogue, without the depth of
>characterization and protagonist's internal conflict, because SF had =
changed
>so much since 1960. He agreed, saying, "You're very perceptive!" Gave me =
a
>wonderful bit of egoboo at I time when my self-esteem was lower than a
>sandworm's belly. A few years ago I recounted the incident to him (of
>course, he didn't remember) and thanked him for the praise, thus repaying
>the egoboo!
>
>Erica

Close Encounter?

Hmmmmm.
Howabout the old Kevin Bacon game?

Me - -> Dave Kyle - ->Arthur C. Clarke - - > Werner Von Braun  - -> Hitler
Me - -> Andi Schecter - -> Alva Rogers (her ex & late 1st husband)  - -> L =
Ron Hubbard

mjw