Robert shared with us his views on Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. He shared with us how this novel influenced him, and we discussed how it was lobotomized into a movie with the same name. William catches me off guard by bringing up a discussion we had in the Con Suite before the panel. We had discussed Washington Irving, my favorite metaphysically challenged science fiction writer. Irving was said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe.
My favorite story of Irving's is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", which he had originally written under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker. I know most people would not think of this story when contemplating works of science fiction, but I consider a dead man riding a demonic stallion while using a Jack-O-Lantern as head and a projectile to be an imaginative element that I have yet to find in contemporary reality.
One of my favorite things about this work is how the author brings the details to life. My favorite paragraph is: "In his devouring mind’s eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living."
We also discussed "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. We discussed the characters, and what possibly inspired various works by H. G. Wells. The panel continued with discussion of other authors.
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I was watching some horror movies, and I saw more than one scene that mentioned that Dracula has no reflection. I was wondering since he has no reflection, how does he stay so well groomed? The most well groomed man in history has no reflection... Unknown"Yuki's Jim"Neglected
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Studios had demanded the Writer's guild drop some of their demands during negotiations back in December. One of those demands was to get the people on Animated Shows unionized. Writer's Guild refused. Recently, though, the Writer's Guild agreed to drop them. Apparently the studios consider Anime writers to not be "real" writers and don't belong in the WGA or any similar union. I disagree, and if you disagree too please click on the thumbs up button to the left to show your support for our endangered Anime writers. Unknown"Yuki's Jim"Neglected
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