Hi Harry, Gosh, you actually met many of my heroes in the days of my youth! How I envy you! All I did was to exchange a letter of two with one English SciFi writer who is so eminent that I've forgotten his name for the moment.
Keith At 17:33 19/03/02 -0800, you wrote: <<<< We rely on reason - on making the right choices. When conditions change we change our choices. (Actually Desmond Morris once told me that our advantage rested squarely on effective genitalia - but what does he know?) . . . Clarke wrote that in 1945 when he discussed the trajectories of rockets in orbit. I met him only once that I can recall, at the White Hart pub - I think in North London. . . . Most of my early philosophy was derived from the conjectures of those early science fiction writers. In London it was coffee with John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids). He never paid. . . . In New York, a bunch would play poker at Harry Gold's place. He was editor of Galaxy - a very good magazine. . . . In Los Angeles, I knew a number of Science Fiction writers. I did a good radio panel critique at Forest Ackerman's mansion and SciFi Museum with writers Fritz Leiber (Conjure Wife), Robert Block (Psycho), Ray Bradbury (Martian Chronicles), and Ackerman. >>>> __________________________________________________________ “Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.” John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
