Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:49:28 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Who would you stamp?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 03/02/13 11:25, Michael Walsh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:17 AM, mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> On 03/01/13 10:20, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> Apparently the Post Office is planning on a set of stamps - possibly 5
>>> - honoring SF writers: http://file770.com/?p=11800.
>>>
>>> Keeping it to dead US 20th writers, who would you pick?
>>>
>>> My current choices:
>>>
>>> Asimov, Heinlein, Williamson, Bradbury, & Norton.
>>>
>>> Runners up: John W. Campbell, James Tiptree, & Octavia Butler.
>>
>> You'd *have* to start with the Big Three: Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein.
>
> But if it's limited to only dead US authors of the 20th century ...
>
>> Beyond that... look at the list of Grandmasters.
>
> Campbell is not on that list.  And while the supposed stamps are for
> writers ... Campbell is way more important as an editor.

I can note that it was Clarke who realized, and published long before
anyone was thinking of it, the geostationary orbit for communications
satellites.

mark

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