Re: ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Author and Gay Man, Dies ~

In article <9vdEj.24204$R84.15236@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Mike  Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> David Friedman wrote:
> > In article <2008031911111450073-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>> And if they don't know the novel was based on Clarke's short story
> >>> "The Sentinel", then they most certainly are not *SF* fans!
> >>
> >> That's an odd litmus test for SF fans, but it'll certainly exclude
> >> lots of people you can sneer at, which seems to be the point of the
> >> exercise.
> >
> > I didn't know that before reading this thread, or if I did I had
> > forgotten it.
> 
> If you'd read the story (after seeing the movie) you knew it at the
time; 
> it's impossible to miss. 

People vary a lot in what they remember. I remember poetry very easily. 
But I'm very bad on names, and I could easily read a story, remember the 
plot, forget the names of the characters and the author.

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