Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:32:33 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Close Encounters . . .Re: re: likes/dislikes in
  reading material
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 06:45 PM 03/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > 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

OK,

Me Tonia Robinson -->Her aunt Nichele Nichols-->A couple more steps-->Any
other famous American and a few others too

>mjw

Candy