Subj : Re: The Game
To   : Curtis Johnson
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Fri Nov 17 2000 06:14 am

-=> Curtis Johnson wrote to Joshua Lee <=-

 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.)

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

 CJ>  Hell, the extreme was an Asimov short-short in which a computer
 CJ> in hyperspace re-creates the universe.

I think I read that one.

(spoiler alert!)

Didn't it end with "in the beginning"? :-)

(end spoiler alert.)

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

 CJ>  At least twice the total area.

It must have needed it; it wouldn't have been able to publish
novellas and serials with the short stories otherwise.

 CJ>  And let us take a moment to bow our heads in silence for
 CJ> Galaxy.

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

 CJ>  I was a slow slug, I guess--I read them in junior high
 CJ> in the late '60s.

Our teacher was thoughtful enough to bring Galaxy to class; and
let me borrow them. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist
when I grew up. I compulsively checked out every book I could
find on the subject even (OOTC) reading Jacob Bronowosky on
the philosophy of science; which was my introduction to the
subject.

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

 CJ>  Seriously, you should buy a bunch of sealing baggies
 CJ> in quantity first chance you get and put one issue in each
 CJ> sealed transparent bag.  That's an investment which will repay
 CJ> itself within a decade.

I'll keep that in mind if I can take them out of storage when I revisit
Virginia. Me and Dad didn't save them for investment value though, more
for entertainment value and the tendency to never throw away good SF
reading material. (He has an equally large collection of SF books -
especially ones that are a part of a series or from certain
authors.)

                       JBL

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