heffelfinger%raven1.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (08/29/85)
From: heffelfinger%raven1.DEC@decwrl.ARPA About 3 weeks ago I attended the Atlanta Fantasy Fair. One of the guests was Fred Pohl. I attended his talk and thought I'd pass along a gem to you. He was talking about the distrubing trend to take an idea that would make a good novel and stretch it to a trilogy.<scattered applause> He then said "Of course some might take my critism with a bit of skepticism since I'm the author of the Gateway/Beyond the Blue Event Horizon/Heechee Rendezvous Trilogy..."<lots of laughter>"I've decided what to do about that... I'm writing a fourth book."<lots of applause> Then he went on to read a short section from "Little Lost Heechee". (don't know if that title is going to stick). Fred was delightful to listen to. He's a funny and fascinating gentleman. I'm glad he was at my first SF/Fantasy convention. It's makes it more likely that I'll go to another. Tracey Heffelfinger Digital Equipment Corp Greenvilee, S.C. UUCP:{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-raven1!heffelfinger ARPA:heffelfinger%raven1.dec@decwrl.arpa