Re: Arthur C Clarke, RIP

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:50:02 +0000, Andrew Plotkin wrote:

> Here, mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:19:38 +0000, lal_truckee wrote:
>> 
>> > Thomas Womack wrote:
>> > 
>> >> MSNBC is re****ting that Arthur C Clarke has died.
>> > 
>> > The last of the giants ...
>> 
>> Vance is still around.
>  
> And Ray Bradbury.

Yeah, I thought of him _after_ I pressed "Send Now".

<sigh>
 
>> Although I don't think he ever breached the mainstream the way
>> Asimov and Clarke did.
>> 
>> (Too many hard words, and too acerbic.)
> 
> We were just talking about how Gary Gygax influenced mainstream
> culture. That popularized more Vance than Vance's books ever did.

That's bizarre.

A Vancean game, or just isolated elements?
 
> (Raise your hand if you've heard of IOUN stones...)

Raise your tentacle if you know what "IOUN" stands for.

(We've had this one before.)

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