Two connections today between Elf Sternberg and David Gerrold.
David Gerrold: "If I left out the gay sequence, then every sharp-eyed reader would recognize that I had skipped over one of the possibilities inherent in the concept."
Elf Sternberg: "[The Only Fair Game] was written specifically because I know Niven is uncomfortable with leather and homosexuality, and yet he created a species which epitomizes machismo to an extent only seen otherwise in the works misogynist leathermen like John Preston."
Elf Sternberg: "I write science fiction because it's the most optimistic genre that exists."
David Gerrold - oh, I don't know. Pick up any one of the Chtorr books. I suspect Gerrold would agree that it is optimistic, the fundamental assumption that the hero can overcome the insurmountable odds. From a detached perspective, though, the hero is getting the crap kicked out of him.
"Put the hero up in a tree and then throw rocks at him. Surround the tree with rabid wolves. Light it on fire. Put a helicopter above with bad guys firing laser-sighted explosive rounds. Have an earthquake. The volcano blows up. Drop an asteroid on the planet. Aliens invade. And the tree has Dutch elm disease." -- Worlds of Wonder
December 26, 2003 6:51 PM
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