# Wolfe at Nasfic *The Urth list — 5 messages, 5 voices, 05 Aug 2007* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### crownrw *05 Aug 2007, 22:40* It's been a long time since I've posted but I'll delurk momentarily since I had the privilege of meeting Gene and his wife this morning at Nasfic in Collinsville, IL. He held a Kaffeeklatsch and, to my amazement, there were only 5 of us in the room, including Gene and Rosemary! Best line of the day: Gene was talking about having known Rosemary since they were children and I, unknowingly playing the straight man, asked him if they were able to finish each other's sentences. Gene replied, "If I go to prison, I expect Rosemary will finish my sentence." One bit of news: he has two unsold novels, he has completed the second draft of "An Evil Guest" and has another titled "The Sorcerer's Tale" (or "The Sorcerer's something", I'm not sure I caught the last word right). He also mentioned he likes to write shorter works when he gets "noveled out" and there should be another collection coming out at some point. The 5 of us spent a very pleasant hour talking about a variety of topics and the time was too short but so it goes. Gene was also on a "writing hard science fiction" panel in the afternoon and mentioned as his qualifications his one Analog story (or Analog-type story?, I didn't recall that he had ever published in Analog) the exact title of which escapes me but is about winning the first world war and the Long Sun series set on a "generation starship." Well worth the $30 one-day admission. Returning to lurk mode, Ron Crown --- ### Jeff Wilson *06 Aug 2007, 00:30 · in reply to crownrw* > crownrw wrote: > Gene was also on a "writing hard science fiction" panel in > the afternoon and mentioned as his qualifications his one > Analog story (or Analog-type story?, I didn't recall that he > had ever published in Analog) the exact title of which > escapes me but is about winning the first world war and the > Long Sun series set on a "generation starship." "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" is an alt-hist story that involves the quantum mechanics of transistors. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### Matthew Groves *06 Aug 2007, 04:05 · follows Jeff Wilson* > It's been a long time since I've posted but I'll delurk > momentarily since I had the privilege of meeting Gene and > his wife this morning at Nasfic in Collinsville, IL. He > held a Kaffeeklatsch and, to my amazement, there were only 5 > of us in the room, including Gene and Rosemary! If anyone on the list knows of future events like this, please post to the list. I would gladly have driven to Collinsville. It's times like this I wish Wolfe had a website. --- ### Mo Holkar / UKG *06 Aug 2007, 08:37 · in reply to Jeff Wilson* > At 01:30 06/08/2007, Jeff wrote: > crownrw wrote: >> Gene was also on a "writing hard science fiction" panel in >> the afternoon and mentioned as his qualifications his one >> Analog story (or Analog-type story?, I didn't recall that he >> had ever published in Analog) the exact title of which >> escapes me but is about winning the first world war and the >> Long Sun series set on a "generation starship." > "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German > Invasion" is an alt-hist story that involves the quantum mechanics > of transistors. And was first published in Analog (or "All New and Logical, Original Games" as it internally refers to it), in 1973. Mo --- ### tgoulding05 at comcast.net *06 Aug 2007, 23:28 · follows Mo Holkar / UKG* If anyone on the list knows of future events like this, please post to the list. I would gladly have driven to Collinsville. It's times like this I wish Wolfe had a website. Matthew, Gene & Rosemary are hoping to attend World Fantasy Con 2007 in Saratoga Springs, NY November 1 — 4, 2007urth at lists.urth.net http://www.lastsfa.org/wfc2007/membership.php ---