20 Mar
2008
20 Mar
'08
6:42 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Holger Veit
<holger.veit at iais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
woodelf schrieb:
Don't forget Heinlein... although I'm willing to forget his later
stuff. Why do SF authors seem to get a little crazy when they get old?
John
--
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Rick Bensene wrote:
Nor did 1984 - however,
meanwhile, I hear people call Orwell an optimist.
Anyway, the old SF visionaries are leaving us. Asimov, Lem, now Clarke;
the golden times of SF disappear.
Concerning 2001: I doubt I really want to have a HAL9000.
It is sad that he has passed on. He was a
brilliant, visionary man
that, luckily for us, left a legacy of great writings that will live on.
True.
But if I remember authors right, 2001 never did come true.