. I did manage to see Ray Bradbury, Harry Harrison, Piers Anthony, and Joe Haldeman. I also got to see Bill Nye, who as far as I know hasn't done SF but deserves mention as a great speaker and advocate of space exploration.
I never got Bradbury's appeal, though I've certainly tried, even with that series that I think was on Showtime many years ago (meaning I didn't have to read the stuff I didn't like). I haven't bothered with Anthony's stuff, but I've always liked Harrison and Haldeman. As I hinted at earlier I was always an Asimov fan as a kid, as much for his non-fiction (kid's educational) stuff as for his fiction stuff. I was however a bit disappointed in him after reading Asimov's slightly posthumous autobiography, I, Asimov. I seems a lot of these great writers were deeply flawed in some basic "human" or personal, capacity.
In a related note, I've always maintained that it's the rare person who has an extraordinary talent who also doesn't have some type of associated dysfunction. It's almost like a person needs to knock something out of balance in themselves to put more "energy"/resources/whatever towards the extraordinary talent. I guess in RPG terms, you're given something like 50 points to distribute across all your abilities - some out there either are able to or choose to put a disproportionate number of points into one area, severely "underfunding" another. Of course there are the occasional uber-geniuses who seem to be able to have it all, like Michaelangelo or Davinci, but those are the definite exceptions to the rule...
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*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
. I did manage to see Ray Bradbury, Harry Harrison, Piers Anthony, and Joe Haldeman. I also got to see Bill Nye, who as far as I know hasn't done SF but deserves mention as a great speaker and advocate of space exploration.
I never got Bradbury's appeal, though I've certainly tried, even with that series that I think was on Showtime many years ago (meaning I didn't have to read the stuff I didn't like). I haven't bothered with Anthony's stuff, but I've always liked Harrison and Haldeman. As I hinted at earlier I was always an Asimov fan as a kid, as much for his non-fiction (kid's educational) stuff as for his fiction stuff. I was however a bit disappointed in him after reading Asimov's slightly posthumous autobiography, I, Asimov. I seems a lot of these great writers were deeply flawed in some basic "human" or personal, capacity.
In a related note, I've always maintained that it's the rare person who has an extraordinary talent who also doesn't have some type of associated dysfunction. It's almost like a person needs to knock something out of balance in themselves to put more "energy"/resources/whatever towards the extraordinary talent. I guess in RPG terms, you're given something like 50 points to distribute across all your abilities - some out there either are able to or choose to put a disproportionate number of points into one area, severely "underfunding" another. Of course there are the occasional uber-geniuses who seem to be able to have it all, like Michaelangelo or Davinci, but those are the definite exceptions to the rule...
Wii: 1345 2773 2048 1586 | PS3: ArmchairArcade
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.