From: <swstiles at comcast.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Hubert Rogers art exhibition
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:18:16 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>; <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Hubert Rogers art exhibition

> http://umass.edu/umhome/events/articles/42211.php
>
> The bad news is that it's in Amherst, MA and ends Jan 31.
>
> For more cover art go to: http://images.google.com and do
a search for:
> hubert rogers astounding.
>
> Want steely jawed Hero?
>
http://www.philsp.com/data/images/a/astounding_uk_193910.jpg
>
> mjw

By coincidence I picked up a copy of Orb Press' "The World
of Null-A," by A.E. Van Vogt at work this week (only one or
two copies left), which sports an uncredited Rogers cover.

Always thought he was quite good: compared to most of his
contemparies he stood head and shoulders above the crowd.
But he was overshadowed by those who soon came after him,
like Cartier, Freas, and Emsh. Their work had a wider range
and more *personality.*

Meanwhile I'm struggling with Van Vogt, struggling to
understand his rep. Perhaps it's another case of "in his
time." The prose is pretty wooden. And right now in my
reading, Gilbert Gosseyn has just regained consciousness
amid the giant trees of Venus!

--Steve