SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Many of you may be familiar with David Brin. I've been a fan of his for years and we struck up a conversation out of your mutual interest in being scifi authors. I got a chance to meet him when he came to SETI in the Bay Area to participate in a discussion about contacting life on other worlds. Very lively discussion - I was surprised.

Spoke with him afterwards, gave him the hard copies of my books that I promised and he signed my copy of The Postman.

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Love doing what I do - it's helped me meet so many awesome people. Who is the coolest Scifi person you ever met?

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The coolest? Ray Harryhausen. Super nice guy. He's probably tied with Chuck Jones as mellowest superhuman I've met.

Larry Niven was pretty cool, too.

Semi-SF but ultra-chill and wickedly funny was Gahan Wilson. We were at Mid-ohio Con decades ago and there he was, just sitting by himself with no one talking to him so my friend George asked him for a Phantom of the Opera drawing and he just started telling jokes as he whipped up a hilarious cartoon off the top of his head.

Oh man, Harryhausen ... now you got my juices flowing. Last year I did some author networking with Kevin Sorbo and I got flipped off by Bruce Campbell but I'll take Harryhausen any day.

He had a bunch of his original models and armatures with him. Nerdvana.

I got to do a reading with Jack Dann last year. I'm sure they paired him with us unknowns so we'd at least have an audience :)

He was lovely.

Leonie wrote: "I got to do a reading with Jack Dann last year. I'm sure they paired him with us unknowns so we'd at least have an audience :)

He was lovely."

Yeah, I actually got to do a podcast with Brin and Allen Steele - they probably did it for the same reason. Very nice guys - the really successful creative types are always very sweet.

Daniel wrote: "Leonie wrote: "I got to do a reading with Jack Dann last year. I'm sure they paired him with us unknowns so we'd at least have an audience :)

He was lovely."

Yeah, I actually got ..."

How amazing!