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Diogenes wrote:http://www.harryharrison.com/

paperburn1 wrote:

Diogenes wrote:http://www.harryharrison.com/

Loved his books. Especially "Bill the Galactic Hero."


The Stainless Steel Rat is actually someone whom I had always looked upon as a good role model.

Another old guy I won't get to meet in person.

I've now decided some reorganization of my con trips next year is in order. Need to see about meeting as many of the older sci-fi and fantasy authors as I can. A good number of them are dead, but this is like the third I've seen in the last couple of years that I really wanted to meet. Need to look at con schedules.

I really enjoy the Rat series. A fun one to revisit on occasion.

kunkmiester wrote:Another old guy I won't get to meet in person.

I've now decided some reorganization of my con trips next year is in order. Need to see about meeting as many of the older sci-fi and fantasy authors as I can. A good number of them are dead, but this is like the third I've seen in the last couple of years that I really wanted to meet. Need to look at con schedules.

It is a regret that I have been recently having as well.

Ray Bradbury died a short time ago. There are a LOT of my favorite authors who have died, and I had hoped for a chance to meet them someday. I feel ya man.

Jerry Pournelle is still alive and generating commentary from his "Chaos Manor."

ladajo wrote:I really enjoy the Rat series. A fun one to revisit on occasion.

I am serious when I say I regarded "Slippery Jim" DeGriz as a role model. I have tried to inject as much of his methods and philosophy into my life as I thought I could get away with.

Gully Foyle is my name: And Terra is my nation: Deep space is my dwelling place: And death's my destination.

The Rat is a good role model, as long as one remembers to add the non-aggression principle: First, do no harm. Despite not liking killing, Jim was very loose with this in other ways, since most of his crimes involved stealing in so many ways.

For people like us who hope to see a revolutionary technology change the world the writings of Harry Harrison are a must read. I have in mind particularly his novel The Daleth Effect. In the story, an Israeli physicist discovers an anomaly in the force of gravity that leads to a reactionless propulsion drive. He realizes the military applications of his discovery and spends the rest of the book trying to ensure that it is used for the benefit of mankind and not it's destruction. When you consider that a working Polywell reactor could be a cheap neutron source for the transmutation of U238 into Plutonium, you must make plans for the possibility of virtually every nation and corporation on earth joining the nuclear weapons club. If I were in charge of preventing this nightmare scenario I would fake the experimental results to show that Polywell fusion is impractical. Then I would develop it in secret until I could spring it upon the world from a position of unassailable economic and military superiority. Just something to keep in mind as we wait for news from the lab.

DR.ZARKOF wrote:For people like us who hope to see a revolutionary technology change the world the writings of Harry Harrison are a must read. I have in mind particularly his novel The Daleth Effect. In the story, an Israeli physicist discovers an anomaly in the force of gravity that leads to a reactionless propulsion drive. He realizes the military applications of his discovery and spends the rest of the book trying to ensure that it is used for the benefit of mankind and not it's destruction. When you consider that a working Polywell reactor could be a cheap neutron source for the transmutation of U238 into Plutonium, you must make plans for the possibility of virtually every nation and corporation on earth joining the nuclear weapons club. If I were in charge of preventing this nightmare scenario I would fake the experimental results to show that Polywell fusion is impractical. Then I would develop it in secret until I could spring it upon the world from a position of unassailable economic and military superiority. Just something to keep in mind as we wait for news from the lab.

Too late.