How many authors?

"guig" <guig RemoveThis @yerawathame.com> wrote
> how many other authors do you know post to their own newsgroups

Tom Clancy's the only one that really springs to mind
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Raymond Feist wrote:

Massive Cyber Snippage Has Taken Place ............


>
> There's a fundamental truth about SF. It's rarely about technology,
> but rather about people and how technology impacts them. Larry
Niven
> did it in several ways in his future Earth stories. I forget the
> title, but there as a future where you could teleport from place to
> place via phone-booth like public transportation so the question
> arose, how do you have an alibi if you're suspected of murder? "But
> officer, I was at a party in Rio and the murder took place in
> London." "So? People at the party say no one saw you between 10:15
> and 10:30, plenty of time to step thorough a booth . . . "
> Ironically, it's axiomatic that usually the first application of any
> new technology is in communications, yet no one wrote any
> particularly good SF around that reality. You've got Clarke's
> satellites, and that's about it. No one predicted laptop computers,
> or personal computers in any way--most future stores have some huge
> central computer everyone talks to. No one predicted personal
> phones, or PDA's, or iPods. So, what's the logical evolution of the
> internet in SF? I don't know, implants into your brain and what
does
> a virus do with that?
>

Heinlein had mobile phones in Space Cadet. ( My 1973 copy is just
about intact )

Did no one realy use the idea of a "personal computer" ? I know Clarke
had a form of electronic organiser in 2001, Floyd uses it to read the
news.


> Personally, I have two SF ideas I've kicked around for years, but
> right now there's a very soft market for SF. Simply put, unless
> you're Bill Gibson or Michael Crighton and being marketed as
> "mainstream" instead of SF, you can't make good money. There's good
> money in fantasy. So, until that changes, I'll probably keep
writing
> fantasy.
>
> Best, R.E.F.

We can only wait and hope for a change in the market Ray.

PS

Any idea when you may be visiting this side of the pond again ?

I'm sure that John's got some more books .....

PPS John, how much to chrter that 747 ????

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Regards,

Barry Ruck. Harlow, Essex. United Kingdom
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In article <82482$46c84dc4$54687293$11084@cache70.multikabel.net>,
"Jacco Weel" <jacco.weel DeleteThis @quicknet.nl> wrote:

> It wasn't in a book, but Star Trek had mobiles in the original series.
>

Which was after the fact. By 1966 the first generation of mobile phones
had been created. They were huge, about the size of a briefcase, and
had no dial or buttons--you had to call an operator to place the call
for you--but seriously rich people had them on their boats and in their
cars. By 1969 they were cheap enough business people I knew had them.

Best, R.E.F.

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satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
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