Hawkwind

[Jean Lansford]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

>At 6:14 -0400 14.09.2001, Jean Lansford wrote:
>>And Baen's Bar, where one of the Baen authors has just gone from
>>"local curmudgeon" to "flameout." As many active fen as hang out
>>there, word will get around quickly; I wonder how many others
>>will join the saner Barflies in taking him off their "must buy"
>>list. *shaking head*
>
>Don't tell me!  I like the works of a bunch of Baen authors and don't
>want to know which one/ones is/are the loonies (insofar as it can't
>be guessed ....)

He's fairly new, IIRC currently working on his third novel.

>>Then there's SFF.net; I spent much of Tuesday relaying TV reports
>>to the newsgroups server there for people who were trapped at
>>work. A friend of mine joined the group there to keep up with my
>>"reports" posts; she told me later, "These people scare me."
>>(What did she expect from the man who invented the Draka?) At
>>least they've mostly calmed down by now.
>
>Stirling?  It's not hard to imagine. Heck, I like quite a lot of
>"miltary SF" but many of the fans (and authors) are a little
>monolithic in their thought processes (and political allegiance).  It
>has sometimes amazed me how people can rant about the defense of
>"freedom" while simultaneously damning the same in one breath.

And some of them are delightful people. Most of the War World
crowd, David Drake, Eric Flint, Lois Bujold. I've never
encountered David Weber, online or off, but people I respect
think highly of him, so add him to the list as well.

>Then I got pathetically used to it.

That's dangerous, though. Get used to it, and you stop eventually
noticing their activities.

>It would be nice to see the States come together with the other
>countries who have vested interests in this stuff and work towards a
>common goal. The potential is there .....

Cross your fingers.

>Ah, this is all embarassingly off topic!

Other than my introducing a friend to BOC this week via Divine
Wind, and my great disappointment that the Oysters were trapped
in NY and had to indefinitely postpone the show they were
supposed to do here last night, too true.

And I was so hoping for a live Divine Wind, too. *sighs*

--
Jean Lansford
oystrgal at bellsouth.net

We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge
or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation,
but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we
are only a single champion.
 - Woodrow Wilson, War Messages, 2 April 1917