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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2007-01-02 08:03 pm
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Remembering Doctor A

Today is Isaac Asimov's 87th birthday.

I only met him once, but I read fifty or sixty of his books, so I owe many memories to him.
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[identity profile] jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com 2007-01-05 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Something munged the text in my comment above. The text in the second paragraph should read:

"I think I became as good a tech writer as I did because I devoured his countless collections of science essays when I was young. His science fiction is pretty damned good. His science writing is without equal."
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[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2007-01-05 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, in attempting to fix this I messed up and deleted the original comment.

Jeff's corrected text should read:

I met him the same day (and at the same event) that you met him (LAcon '84) and he left an indelible impression.

I think I became as good a tech writer as I did because I devoured his countless collections of science essays when I was young. His science fiction is pretty damned good. His science writing is without equal.

(It was Noreascon Two in Boston in 1980, by the way.)
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