Water Flow On The Valley Floor! Options

[SigurRosFan]

Original link: http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/09/15/

Okay, okay. It's only a FLOW of a SEA oF DUNES.

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

"The process continues within SF fandom, at least in the UK: I have been eaten by zombies, as well as having my sexual prowess mocked mercilessly, in Deathday by 'Shaun Hutson' (names behind the nom-de-plume hidden to protect the guilty)and was recently also killed (but met my end as a bit of a hero) by King Richard III in one of Freda Warrington's novels. Jim Allan, a Glasgow fan known for obscure reasons as 'The Parrot' was immortalised by James White in the form of a race of parrotoids in the Sector General stories (the Nallajim). I believe that John Brunner never forgave Michael Moorcock for the 'Miss Brunner' charactor in the Jerry Cornelius cycle!"

Oh. So you're THAT Bob Shaw. I was wondering...

"L Sprague de Camp and Elron (He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoke Lest It Cause The Elronistas To Google You (hint)) sorted out each other that way, each murdering not only the other but the other's characters!"

What a pity that de Camp didn't do it in person, thereby significantly advancing the cause of human civilization. (I don't suppose he used Hubbard as a character in "When Darkness Falls"...)

[Bob Shaw]

"The process continues within SF fandom, at least in the UK: I have been eaten by zombies, as well as having my sexual prowess mocked mercilessly, in Deathday by 'Shaun Hutson' (names behind the nom-de-plume hidden to protect the guilty)and was recently also killed (but met my end as a bit of a hero) by King Richard III in one of Freda Warrington's novels. Jim Allan, a Glasgow fan known for obscure reasons as 'The Parrot' was immortalised by James White in the form of a race of parrotoids in the Sector General stories (the Nallajim). I believe that John Brunner never forgave Michael Moorcock for the 'Miss Brunner' charactor in the Jerry Cornelius cycle!"

Oh.  So you're THAT Bob Shaw.  I was wondering...

"L Sprague de Camp and Elron (He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoke Lest It Cause The Elronistas To Google You (hint)) sorted out each other that way, each murdering not only the other but the other's characters!"

What a pity that de Camp didn't do it in person, thereby significantly advancing the cause of human civilization.  (I don't suppose he used XXXXX as a character in "When Darkness Falls"...)

Bruce:

Aaargh! You mentioned the 'H' word! We're all doomed, they'll come and visit us and bore us all to death! N-o-o-o-o!

And as for L Sprague de Camp's sad oversight, yup!

And, er, actually I'm probably *not* the Bob Shaw you're thinking of - I'm the Evil Fake Bob Shaw (I kid you not!).

Bob Shaw