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

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:49:05 -0700, Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On 2008-03-25 21:46:12 -0700, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:28:26 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
>> <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Lawrence Watt-Evans" <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> news:o59iu31nkrs2h3ojc6ud92lkuj4u4saaf8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:53:28 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
>>>> <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Lawrence Watt-Evans" <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>> news:vc0hu3dc2844v46qte4325aqqel2siuujv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:03 -0800, "Kevin Cherkauer" <aaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> 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.

Oh, rub it in, why don't you?

Damn, I wish we'd gotten to that condo in Silver Spring before the
other buyer -- now, THAT was an office!





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