35 years or so ago I was driving my family through the Adirondacks, and
to keep the kids entertained, started making up a song about the
Adirondack Shark. I guess I was just participating in some silly cosmic
freshwater resonance.
Eric Scoles wrote:
Are you sure he was serious? (Then again, if I have to ask...)
When I was younger I thought it would be fun to write a novel about a
giant muskelunge eating swimmers in Lake Michigan. Thought it would be
fun to see if people took it seriously. Somebody else suggested, 'why
not just make it a gigantic bass and set it in Long Lake?'* Then
someone went and made _Champlain_, which I'm told was about a gigantic
alligator terrorizing swimmers in Lake Champlain, and I realized that
the world had moved on without me.
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*My brothers & I spent hours one weekend catching and re-catching (and
re-re-catching) undersized smallmouth bass on Long Lake. One of our
running jokes had to do with crossing them with piranha. So, there's
another idea.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jonathan Sherwood
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Sorry to digress slightly, but the absolute worst case of
collaboration was a book my dear wife bought me for a beach read.
It was by Piers Anthony and some other guy. It's called "Spider
Legs," and holds my personal record for worst book ever read. It
was so bad I had to finish it just because it was hard to believe
it was ever put into print instead of sent back to the depths of
Hell by the publisher.
It's basically "Jaws" but with a giant spider crab. Why do good
authors do that?
http://www.amazon.com/Spider-Legs-Fantasy-Piers-Anthony/dp/0812564898
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Asimov also declined. I can't stand his later novels.
Clarke's quality dropped because he started collaborating with
less skillful writers. It bothers me, even, that he wrote his
two novels 2001 and 2010 in collaboration with
filmmakers. Kubrick's film is far better, and has reached more
people than Clarke's novel, which is a let down after seeing
the film. I'm having a hard time teaching him.
Sally
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, SteveC <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Blather. Most of the writers at the high age range of that
chart
started publishing many years before such a thing as a
Hugo Award for
novels existed. Make 1955 your base line (when the Hugos
started being
awarded annually) instead of first published work and the
whole chart
shifts downward.
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