Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jack Vance is 94
To: WSFA <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Sorry about that. I haven't found out where to make that
stop happening.

--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
>> Jack Vance turns 94 years old today.
>> I think he's the oldest living SF author.
>> Last week I posted <snip>
>> "Ray Bradbury turns 90 years old today.  I think
>>  Fred Pohl, who turned 90 last November, is the
>>  only older living SF author."
<snip>
>> Doris Lessing and E.C. Tubb are both older
>> than Fred Pohl, though not as old as Jack Vance.
>>
>> What's the oldest any SF author has ever been?

> I think a more interesting question might
> be which sf/f author (living/not living)
> had/has the longest active writing career?
> I think Jack Williamson  is way up there ...

How about: who is the oldest SF author still
publishing new books?

In Border's the other day I saw a Heechee
sequel by Fred Pohl that I hadn't known about,
in paperback.

=Tamar