rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (10/15/85)
[] A cat can look at a king. Its a free country and everyone is entitled to their opinion, no mater how wrong headed. However, nothing midgets can say will alter the real stature of JWC, who, more than any other single person, made science fiction what it is today - one of themore popular topics on the net. Sorry to butt into your private harangue, but I hate to see people deluded and mislead (unless I do it my self, I guess). Anyhow, I feel fortunate to have started when I did (circa '45) and only wish I had started earlier. But you see, I never might have started at all if I hadn't gone to boy scout camp and burned the book of the kid reading pulp trash - then carefully fished it out of the coals and, like, wow! Not that he was reading the big A, but I quickly located that as soon as I got back to civilization and raided the drug store for this new found literature. Did you ever read Amazing Stories? The Shaver Mysteries? Read some somewhere. That was SF before JWC. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg