From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was  Sith andbefore
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:07:39 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was Sith andbefore

> > omni at omniphile.com 6/16/2005 1:26:00 PM >>>
> >At 01:14 PM 6/16/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >
> >>Kubrick made very effective use of silence.
> >
> >Yep.  They are doing well with that on the new Battlestar Gallactica
> >too...as well as giving you a better feel for how big space really is
>
> >with
> >those long zoom-in shots of the Gallactica.  You know the think is
> >really
> >huge...and then you see a starscape or nebula with a tiny dot on it,
> >then
> >it zooms in and you realize that the tiny dot is that huge spaceship
> >and
> >your scale meter pegs...
>
> Which brings to mind this, about space.
>
> In James White's novel "All Judgment Fled" there are two refitted
> Apollo capsules sent out to Mars to investigate a Very Large Object.  He
> did a very effective job of getting across the near claustophobia of
> this months long journey.  Imagine being seated next to two other people
> for months... and nowhere to go.
>
> Heck, it was good enough to be reprinted a few years ago:
> http://oldearthbooks.com/j_white.htm
>
> White was one of those wonderful people in fandom, a fan and a damn
> fine writer.

And a remarkably fine human being.   He was, of course, one of the original
Wheels of IF.

--Ted White