Subj : Re: The Game
To   : Curtis Johnson
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Thu Nov 09 2000 07:01 pm

-=> Curtis Johnson wrote to JOSHUA LEE <=-

 JW>  unbound and buy-able....Science fiction was my addiction...now, it
 JW> seems it all came true; last month, according to PC Mag... :-)

 CJ>  (Parenthetical note:  although pre-1970 sf featured computers
 CJ> prominently, there is only the barest handful of mentions of anything
 CJ> corresponding to a PC, much less a PDA!  Sf writers seem to have
 CJ> been slave to mainframe think along with the computer scientists.)

Defininately - at it's extreme were stories of planet-sized computers.

 CJ>  The name-change from Astounding to Analog happened around
 CJ> 1962, along with a change in the magazine's size.

Bigger or smaller? ('62 was before my time.)

 CJ>  Amazing survived until the 1990s, though in the 1970s there
 CJ> was a period in which it was merely reprinting past stories.
 CJ>  And let us take a moment to bow our heads in silence for
 CJ> Galaxy.

Hey, Galaxy! That's a name I haven't seen for a while; I used to
read those in the '70s when I was in elementary school. (I was a
precocious child - already reading on nearly an adult level; albeit
without adult sophistication.)

 JL> of "Dune" as it appeared in Analog, before Mom threw it out while
 JL> cleaning house!

 CJ>  Ouch.
 CJ>  I used to have a whole bunch of Analogs and F&SF and some
 CJ> Galaxy from the '60s and '70s.  <sob>

I still have Dad's Analogs in storage - my move to NYC was
abrubt and I couldn't take much with me. (A disadvantage of
having no car.)

                       JBL

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