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I read a fair amount of Ellison, Herbert, Heinlein while in college but incredibly one summer I actually spent a solid week including 3 meals a day with Ellison. He was a guest lecturer to the SciFi writers workshop on campus at MSU. We hit if off and frankly the dude was a real trip. Never shut up....and that was great. The stories that guy could spin about Writing, Directing and making movies and television shows...astonishing! Anyway, one steamy hot night we filled a classroom with about 800 students while he read 4 different works from one of his anthology series. He had us in a complete state of suspended animation despite the miserable heat that seemed to build with each page and the oxygen that seemed to dissipate in perspiring angst each minute that passed. It was a great night......I'll never forget the rush of cool midnight summer air that hit my face when we opened the door to walk home. Ellison is insane but his skills allow the insanity to be shared.
Sounds like it was a great time, dmarque. I haven't met Harlan in person, yet, but was involved in the discussion over on Scalzi's Whatever when he showed up. I ended up sending him a source where he could get Pure Maple Syrup (the real stuff from trees). Harlan grew up local to Cleveland and kind of missed the good stuff. I hope he enjoyed it. Two other friends have had personal contact with him (one met in during a speech he gave, shook his hand and talked with him for a bit, the other collects books and ran into some from his personal library).
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