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Re: I met the man today
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Jeffrey Rubard
Feb 15, 2022, 1:15:56 AM2/15/22
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On Friday, March 10, 2000 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Ted Hand wrote:
> KSR came to my SF class at UC Davis this morning and answered questions about
> the mars books. It was a great talk, he's a really sweet, authentic human
> being and (of course) has all kinds of things to say about SF and his work. I
> asked him whether he considers himself a mystic; he said he has mystical
> experiences every day of his life--the world being such a crazy unfathomable
> place and all. I asked him about the PKD influence, pointing out Art Randolph
> and William Fort as the class Dick Big Protagonist/Little Protagonist matchup,
> he said he hadn't thought of it but I was right, then went on to explain about
> the multiple narrative perspective he discussed in "The Novels of PKD" and how
> the POV changes in the Mars books are similar. I asked him whether, twenty
> years after The Memory of Whiteness, he believes in free will or determinism.
> He said free will, the determinist physics thing basically being a cool kooky
> idea he wanted to play with in that book, but not something he took too
> seriously. I guess he doesn't worry about it as much as I do.
> After the lecture I talked to him about Philip Dick, he told me about a Sutin
> theory that Dick's visions were caused by a weird form of epilepsy. I asked
> him if he considers himself a writer or an SF writer, he says SF writer to save
> the time of answering the inevitable question "what do you write" when one says
> one is a writer. He graciously signed my copy of the Martians, and he
> accidentally started to write "1" when he began the "2000," saying this was the
> first time he's had to write 2000.
>
> Ii can still hardly believe that I was just talking to the guy that wrote all
> those amazing books. If only I had gone to Davis 15 years ago when he taught
> here...
> Sned The Bold
> www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/3937/
> "There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the
> advantage arising from non-action."
> -Lao Tzu
It really is some world, isn't it.
*New York 2140* = a "New Yorkism", "were it ever thus". They think that far ahead.
That's what they think that far ahead? Does it suit ya? (Pretty much inherently
a "tumbling tumbleweed" myself.)
> KSR came to my SF class at UC Davis this morning and answered questions about
> the mars books. It was a great talk, he's a really sweet, authentic human
> being and (of course) has all kinds of things to say about SF and his work. I
> asked him whether he considers himself a mystic; he said he has mystical
> experiences every day of his life--the world being such a crazy unfathomable
> place and all. I asked him about the PKD influence, pointing out Art Randolph
> and William Fort as the class Dick Big Protagonist/Little Protagonist matchup,
> he said he hadn't thought of it but I was right, then went on to explain about
> the multiple narrative perspective he discussed in "The Novels of PKD" and how
> the POV changes in the Mars books are similar. I asked him whether, twenty
> years after The Memory of Whiteness, he believes in free will or determinism.
> He said free will, the determinist physics thing basically being a cool kooky
> idea he wanted to play with in that book, but not something he took too
> seriously. I guess he doesn't worry about it as much as I do.
> After the lecture I talked to him about Philip Dick, he told me about a Sutin
> theory that Dick's visions were caused by a weird form of epilepsy. I asked
> him if he considers himself a writer or an SF writer, he says SF writer to save
> the time of answering the inevitable question "what do you write" when one says
> one is a writer. He graciously signed my copy of the Martians, and he
> accidentally started to write "1" when he began the "2000," saying this was the
> first time he's had to write 2000.
>
> Ii can still hardly believe that I was just talking to the guy that wrote all
> those amazing books. If only I had gone to Davis 15 years ago when he taught
> here...
> Sned The Bold
> www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/3937/
> "There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the
> advantage arising from non-action."
> -Lao Tzu
It really is some world, isn't it.
*New York 2140* = a "New Yorkism", "were it ever thus". They think that far ahead.
That's what they think that far ahead? Does it suit ya? (Pretty much inherently
a "tumbling tumbleweed" myself.)
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