"My 1979 drop of comics had a long lead in. When I got out of the Army at the end of 1969, the job I returned to only occasionally required long hours. I started going to the San Diego Con in 1972, its second (?) year. The all-night projection (!) of…"
"My story "Flying Whistle Stop" was inspired by two main ideas: (1) what might the world be like if, at the height of the 1950s flying saucers craze, aliens had just landed and said "hi" and (2) could I create a world where we might achieve the…"
"Jeff of Earth J said:
I thought you were going to cite the scene in which all the engineers whipped out their notepads and pencils to solve an equation.
Wha -- ?Nah, the greatest scene in cinematic history calls forth the true spirit of American…"
"When did we stop dreaming big? I'd say it was about 20 years after President Kennedy exhorted us all to launch the space program, after a different president insisted "government is not the solution, government is the problem," and told us the…"
I usually hop back on the boards every couple months. I'm usually buying my books in 2 large orders every six months so it makes it hard to follow some of the discussions since I haven't read the books yet.
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