When I was in sixth grade, my teacher provided a little shelf of fiction paperbacks, to encourage our class to read for pleasure. I was already hooked, so I borrowed often.
One of the first ones I grabbed was Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley. I was already a fan of monster movies and the Twilight Zone, so science fiction was a natural progression for me. Thanks to that book, I became a lifetime fan.
And it was through reading Sheckley and his Golden Age compatriots (Bradbury, Zelazny, et al) that I knew, back in the long-ago Watergate summer of 1974, that I'd one day be receiving news from and typing words into an interface just like this.
My only wish is that I hadn't read this particular bit of news.
*nod* It was news that didn't make me happy to share (especially given the loss of Jack Chalker earlier this year). Sheckley was and is a genius, but he's never received the appreciation that even Zelazny got, let along Bradbury.
Did you know that his daughter is former Vertigo editor and current chicklit author Alisa Kwitney?
No, I didn't know that. (Heh. I've read at least one of her books, too. It was fun, in a chick-lit/mystery hybrid kind of way.) You're quite the fount of information, you are. ;-)
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The future was ours to see
Date: 2005-05-06 04:05 pm (UTC)When I was in sixth grade, my teacher provided a little shelf of fiction paperbacks, to encourage our class to read for pleasure. I was already hooked, so I borrowed often.
One of the first ones I grabbed was Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley. I was already a fan of monster movies and the Twilight Zone, so science fiction was a natural progression for me. Thanks to that book, I became a lifetime fan.
And it was through reading Sheckley and his Golden Age compatriots (Bradbury, Zelazny, et al) that I knew, back in the long-ago Watergate summer of 1974, that I'd one day be receiving news from and typing words into an interface just like this.
My only wish is that I hadn't read this particular bit of news.
Re: The future was ours to see
Date: 2005-05-06 04:23 pm (UTC)Did you know that his daughter is former Vertigo editor and current chicklit author Alisa Kwitney?
Re: The future was ours to see
Date: 2005-05-07 01:02 am (UTC)