Are you sure he was serious? (Then again, if I have to ask...) When I was younger I thought it would be fun to write a novel about a giant muskelunge eating swimmers in Lake Michigan. Thought it would be fun to see if people took it seriously. Somebody else suggested, 'why not just make it a gigantic bass and set it in Long Lake?'* Then someone went and made _Champlain_, which I'm told was about a gigantic alligator terrorizing swimmers in Lake Champlain, and I realized that the world had moved on without me.
-- *My brothers & I spent hours one weekend catching and re-catching (and re-re-catching) undersized smallmouth bass on Long Lake. One of our running jokes had to do with crossing them with piranha. So, there's another idea. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jonathan Sherwood < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to digress slightly, but the absolute worst case of collaboration was > a book my dear wife bought me for a beach read. It was by Piers Anthony and > some other guy. It's called "Spider Legs," and holds my personal record for > worst book ever read. It was so bad I had to finish it just because it was > hard to believe it was ever put into print instead of sent back to the > depths of Hell by the publisher. > > It's basically "Jaws" but with a giant spider crab. Why do good authors do > that? > > http://www.amazon.com/Spider-Legs-Fantasy-Piers-Anthony/dp/0812564898 > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Asimov also declined. I can't stand his later novels. Clarke's quality >> dropped because he started collaborating with less skillful writers. It >> bothers me, even, that he wrote his two novels 2001 and 2010 in >> collaboration with filmmakers. Kubrick's film is far better, and has reached >> more people than Clarke's novel, which is a let down after seeing the >> film. I'm having a hard time teaching him. >> Sally >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Blather. Most of the writers at the high age range of that chart >>> started publishing many years before such a thing as a Hugo Award for >>> novels existed. Make 1955 your base line (when the Hugos started being >>> awarded annually) instead of first published work and the whole chart >>> shifts downward. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
