boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (05/21/85)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA > From: stc!pete@topaz.arpa (Peter Kendell) >>From: Barry Margolin <Margolin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> >> >>Just to set the record straight, the film TMWCWM is based on the >>short story of the same name by a relatively unknown author named >>H.G. Wells.... >> barmar > > FLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAME > > H.G. Wells unknown??? When and where were you born??? To speak of > one of the founders of modern SF like this is ridiculous. Many of > his stories (The Time Machine - it invented the time-travel genre, > War of the Worlds - better written and more exciting + logical than > any of its successors) stand up today better than the forgotten work > of later writers. > > FLAMEOFF You're joking, right? Well, I'm sure that Barry would've been happy to have put a :-) in his posting, but how on Earth would he guess that anyone would think he wasn't making a joke? Sheesh. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA