Re: Fate of SF as World Slides Down Back Side of Hubbert's Curve?


"Kurt Busiek" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-03-25 21:46:12 -0700, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@xxxxxxx> said:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:28:26 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
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"Lawrence Watt-Evans" <lwe@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:53:28 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Lawrence Watt-Evans" <lwe@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:03 -0800, "Kevin Cherkauer" <aaa@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

What happens to SF as it becomes clearer that the future will not be
more
like Star Trek, but instead will be more like the past?

I am very amused indeed to see someone asking this question on the
internet.

Even funnier if someone was responding to it on a web-browsing cell
phone
over wifi internet.

I thought of that, but alas, I was using my office desktop computer.

You have an office? But you're a fiction writer. Don't you work at home?

Yes, of course I do. And I have an office at home, too, which is
where I work. When we bought this house, we chose it partly because
it had a room that was perfect for a home office.

Most full-time writers have offices. I always envied Jack Chalker --
his was huge, having been custom-built on top of a spacious two-car
garage. Mine's nothing like that big; I think the architect intended
this as a guest room or sewing room.

You need to come out and see mine, sometime -- it's a bonus room that sits
atop an almost L-shaped _three_ car garage, with views of the Columbia
River. Your office would fit into the back leg of it, with room left
over.

When we toured the house, I think I instantly knew we were going to buy it
as soon as I saw the bonus room.

kdb


Yeah, now that I could see, a home office, a den or study or a garage--altho
wow, Kurt, that sounds far fancier than a lot of offices people have at an
office building.

Plus an L-shaped 3-car garage? You're ruining the stereotype of the starving
writer.

-- Ken from Chicago


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