tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400097.post3031954933359280585..comments2023-10-30T04:58:21.867-05:00Comments on At Home in Bluffton: Here's the story...Larry Santorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09475600592358477572noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400097.post-68645667445644868372009-09-26T23:14:40.679-05:002009-09-26T23:14:40.679-05:00By the way, Ken, since you're a Pacific island...By the way, Ken, since you're a Pacific island guy, you might enjoy Gene Wolfe's THE TREE IS MY HAT. I did an audio adaptation of it for presentation at the World Horror Convention in 2002 and Tony 'cast it on the Starship last year. It's at about Audial Delight #40-something.<br /><br />All the best,<br />LarryLarry Santorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475600592358477572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400097.post-25395249825091681052009-09-26T23:08:42.637-05:002009-09-26T23:08:42.637-05:00Ken,
Thank you so much for your very kind words an...Ken,<br />Thank you so much for your very kind words and for your efforts on behalf of the Robinsons. I, too, remember reading Stardancer in Analog. I was a subscriber to Astounding Science Fiction and to Analog since the 7th grade when the magazine sold for 35 cents (and I had to save for it at that!)<br /><br />Anyway, I'm rambling but thanks again for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your affiliation with StarShipSofa.<br /><br />LarryLarry Santorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475600592358477572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400097.post-69603733409756428072009-09-26T21:13:34.851-05:002009-09-26T21:13:34.851-05:00"The novella I'm doing at the request of ..."The novella I'm doing at the request of StarShipSofa editor Tony C. Smith will be a one-off book with art and illustrations by Skeet Scienski. The sale of that book will be to benefit Spider and Jeanne Robinson. Jeanne has cancer and, even in Canada, the illness and the human complications that come with it have pretty much drained the Robinson's resources."<br /><br />Larry, I found your blog thru the StarShipSofa. I have just joined that august group, and even though I am not a writer, I have been a reader and fan of Science Fiction since the 40's. I am a retired US Navy Chief, and make my home on the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia. I remember vividly, the issue of Analog Magazine that contained the novella Stardancers that they wrote as a team. That piece reached out and grabbed me and to this day it remains one of the greatest SciFi stories that I have ever had the pleasure to read. My heart goes out to the Robinsons, I know cancer, My dad died from it, my brother in law, My sister and myself have both been operated on for Colon Cancer and I lost a grandson (fa'amu), last fall with leukemia a child who was only 15. I am now at home in Tahiti, as I was diagnosed and operated on in Portland, OR at the VA Hospital for both skin and colon cancer. My family are Tahitian, and my wife and daughter said that I must return home to be with my family. I had been in the USA for 12 years providing care for my Mom who is 91 and now being taken care of by a great grandson on my Sisters side. I am planning to go to Spider and Jeannes Site and make a donation, and will probably put a note on my Facebook Page, I blog a bit, and have a lot of friends who might help out is they were to know that Jeanne Robinson had cancer. I see where one of your favorite books is Dandelion Wine.. Mine also, I feel in good company. Kindness and compassion seem to be in short supply these days. <br /><br />Bravo Zulu Larry!<br /><br />Wishin' you and your family, Fair Winds and Following Seas!<br /><br />Ken Jackson<br />CPO USN Ret.Maheanuu Tanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08136235269184573183noreply@blogger.com