Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jack Vance is 94
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:=0A> "Keith F.=
 Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>=0A>> Jack Vance turns 94 years old today.=A0=
=0A>> I think he's the oldest living SF author.=0A>> Last week I posted <sn=
ip>=0A>> "Ray Bradbury turns 90 years old today.=A0 I think=0A>>  Fred Pohl=
, who turned 90 last November, is the =0A>>  only older living SF author."=
=0A<snip> =0A>> Doris Lessing and E.C. Tubb are both older=0A>> than Fred P=
ohl, though not as old as Jack Vance.=0A>> =0A>> What's the oldest any SF a=
uthor has ever been?=0A=0A> I think a more interesting question might =0A> =
be which sf/f author (living/not living) =0A> had/has the longest active wr=
iting career? =0A> I think Jack Williamson  is way up there ...=0A=0AHow ab=
out: who is the oldest SF author still=0Apublishing new books?=0A=0AIn Bord=
er's the other day I saw a Heechee=0Asequel by Fred Pohl that I hadn't know=
n about,=0Ain paperback.=0A=0A=Tamar=0A=0A=0A