Comments on: Launch pad countdown

By: Steve Clayworth

Steve Clayworth — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:20:05 +0000

My wife and I had the great good fortune to share (along with 1500 others) the 2006 solar eclipse in Libya with Joe and his lovely wife Gay. Joe is one of my favorite writers, and just an all-around great guy.

By: Matt Moore

Matt Moore — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:54:19 +0000

Hang on, I’m paying for fiction writers to learn astronomy and physics? Assuming they went to public schools I already paid for them to (not) learn it, and now I have to pay to give them a second try.

I fail to see how it’s a “fantastic idea” to subsidize the earning potential of entertainers with public money.

By: jdac

jdac — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:21:11 +0000

Man, I totally did not get that The Forever War was satire. I’ll have to reread it (not that it would be much of a chore).

While people are swapping great SF around, I’d definitely have to mention Alfred E. Bester’s “The Stars My Destination” (published in the UK as “Tiger! Tiger!”). A fantastically visceral novella. It is brimming with fantastic elements; several times I thought I had a handle on the setting, only to have Bester metaphorically slap me in the face for my provincial imagination. And yet, nothing in it seems extraneous or wasted; each scene adds to Bester’s picture of the Freak Century of the Jaunting Age. Great stuff.

By: Whats Hot » Blog Archive » Why oh Wyoming

Whats Hot » Blog Archive » Why oh Wyoming — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:00:54 +0000

[...] here for Launch Pad, which I wrote about earlier. I already had lunch with Gay and Joe Haldeman, Scott Sigler, and other people who have up until [...]

By: DK

DK — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:50:31 +0000

“In fact, has any P.K.Dick story made it to the silver screen unchanged?”

I might be mistaken, but I think A Scanner Darkly was rather faithful.

By: Why oh Wyoming | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Why oh Wyoming | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:56:03 +0000

[...] here for Launch Pad, which I wrote about earlier. I already had lunch with Gay and Joe Haldeman, Scott Sigler, and other people who have up until [...]

By: Plutonium being from Pluto

Plutonium being from Pluto — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:47:02 +0000

The ‘Forever War’ is awesome novel -one of my all-time faves.

@ 1. Buffalodavid :

With Asimov, Clark and Heinlein gone, I tend to think of Joe as the current “Grand Old Man” of Science Fiction. Phil, please shake his hand for me. Thanks.

… & shake his hand again for me too!