Remembering Doctor A
Jan. 2nd, 2007 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyToday 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.
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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Date: 2007-01-05 05:16 pm (UTC)"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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Date: 2007-01-05 06:34 pm (UTC)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.)