LawsonE wrote:
> "Tiny Human Ferret" <ixnayamspay_klaatu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:40DB941E.30904@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>Scipio wrote:
>>
>>>On 23 Jun 2004 02:49:00 -0700, freddy_nerk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Freddy) wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>>>Wasn't Bradbury the guy who said that he could "out-create" 100
>>>>"sonsof*****es" equipped with computers using only a pencil and a
>>>>notepad? The guy is a wacko.
>>>
>>>
>>>This remark, relatively meek though it is, may go in the Top 10 List
>>>of the most uncultured utterances I've ever read on Usenet.
>>
>>Anyone slagging on Bradbury without an accompanying very-literate and
>>incisive critique should be considered uncultured and probably a
hooligan.
>>
>>In any case, I do believe it was Harlan Ellison who made a remark
>>similar to that alleged, and made it as a bet, and won it, televised.
>>
>
>
> Ellison will write anything and publish it anywhere. He's published
science
> fiction **** in low-grade **** mags, for instance ("Letters to the
> Interstellar *** Counselor" was the title, I believe). Of COURSE he'd
win
> that bet.
You may have noticed that if you walk into a used book store, and try to
buy something by Ellison, it's almost impossible to find anything...
because there are some books by some authors that, once you've finally
gotten your own copy, nothing can induce you to sell.
Ellison also wrote "Soldier", which is acknowledged as the basis of the
"Terminator" series of films, and he also wrote "I Have No Mouth and I
Must Scream", one of the more terrifying tales ever of an AI plunging
the world into nuclear destruction, also an acknowledged basis of the
"Terminator" series of films. Assuming that you're posting from one of
the doper NGs, I can only advise that you find and read one of the
"illustrated novel" versions of his seminal and probably applicable
"Shattered Like A Glass Goblin". I recommend the version originally
published in Heavy Metal.
--
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
--Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
|
