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I am not particularly a fan of Sci-Fi but I know he was a well regarded author. My condolences to those who knew him and to those who enjoyed his work.
by RexRollman 13y ago
I am not particularly a fan of Sci-Fi but I know he was a well regarded author. My condolences to those who knew him and to those who enjoyed his work.
- andybak 13y agoMore importantly he was a well-regarded thinker. I can't help but think of this Kurt Vonnegut quote (He put these words into the mouth of a character, Eliot Rosewater, who gate-crashed and addressed a conference of SF writers): "I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell." (from 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' 1965)
- dekhn 13y ago"God Bless You, Mr Rosewater" is one of the most underrated books of all time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater Of course, "Sirens of Titan" is the other great one.